Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME's eye on the disordered corners of his region, but hopes to spend more time close to his base. That will bring no shortage of hot news though. India is scheduled to hold its national elections by December...
...young were seeing visions as the old stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help...
...think that we're just lucky that both odd couples came along when they did and both odd couples had very odd coupled wives, who may not have gotten along, but who both had their eye on this ultimate accommodation," says Goldman...
...keeping his eye on the ball has finally got Bush "there." Getting to the next step -- re-election in '92 and then to a consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan...
Members of the rational-expectations school, which holds that people keep a sharp eye on government policies and then act accordingly, were also caught short by inflation's fall. "If you had listened to me eight years ago," says University of Chicago economist Robert Lucas, "I would have predicted an inflation rate of 25% with these deficits...