Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt (CBS). Light but never lightweight, this 90-minute eye opener demonstrates that long-form magazine shows can work, and that Kuralt is as nimble off the road...
...previous novels (In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians), J.M. Coetzee turned his apocalyptic eye on his native South Africa. The subjects of his books-race war, state violence and personal vengeance-had a distinctive local color. Now the Afrikaner author goes straight to the center of mankind's lust for self-destruction. The scene of Life and Times of Michael K is only incidentally South Africa. The subject is terminal civil war; the time is the end of the world...
...dash or runs for President, whether he orates like Martin Luther King Jr. or drawls like Stepin Fetchit, his color sets him apart. For him the American melting pot can sear faster than it assimilates. And so he looks to his roots, finding solace in soul, while fixing an eye on the main chance of upward mobility. His tragedy is that, in both worlds, he may end up a stranger...
...This year has been one of unexpectedly vigorous growth, declining unemployment and low inflation. And TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Manhattan, sees business remaining strong next year, while the jobless rate continues to fall and prices inch up only slightly. With an eye toward next year's presidential campaign, Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., economic consulting firm, concluded: "The 1984 outlook is very nice, at least for a Republican...
...kindling eye...