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SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of 1981: Video | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

The periodic eruptions of Secretary of State Alexander Haig against back-corridor White House grousing over his performance are, if nothing else, enervating and diverting. Budget Chief David Stockman's unusual excursion into journalistic confession raises a credibility cloud that may be no bigger than a man's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Before It's Too Late | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

The College of William and Mary wasn't about to let its Harvard guests come away with a bad impression, especially after the Crimson's shoddy treatment during its most recent Southern excursion, a 47-0 shallacking at the hands of the University of Virginia in 1947. But that's...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Stylish Hosts | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

The troops who went to Korea got a muted version of the welcome. But then came America's longest, strangest war. From that one, in Viet Nam, the boys came home alone, mostly one by one. Sometimes they would arrive in the middle of the night, almost as if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Warriors | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

In private, Quraishi displays the overflowing hospitality characteristic of Saudis. Richard Debs, a managing director of New York's Morgan Stanley investment banking house, recalls the time that Quraishi invited him and his wife on an excursion to the hills north of the Saudi town of Medina, where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squirreling Away $100 Billion | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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