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...recent Presidents have promised large roles for their Vice Presidents, but their promises always seem to fade away. What do you plan for George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Ronald Reagan | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...fall, when the Administration economists were preparing the budget, the President and his advisers worried about the challenge on the left from Kennedy. Cutting social programs could cost them important liberal support. But when inflation soared instead of dipping as they expected, and the Kennedy challenge started to fade, Carter rushed to the right to avoid being outflanked by Ronald Reagan, then starting to hit his stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Coming to Grips with the Job | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...ELEPHANT MAN is a monster movie. It combines drawing-room genteelness and austerity with the elements of the classic 1930's horror films: the shadowy black-and-white photography; the slow fade-outs and dissolves; the eerie music; the mad scientist; the sensitive, hideous monster, misunderstood and abused by society, tortured by the humanity within him. Director David Lynch artfully manipulates these components--evading scariness and melodrama, while adding historical perspective and social commentary--to tell the true story of a tormented soul searching for dignity and compassion. Lynch's film is what Frankenstein should have been, what The Hunchback...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Affecting Monster | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...mile mark, Schuller began to fade as a week-long illness took its toll. Meanwhile, half-miler-turned-distance runner Adam Dixon began moving away from...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harvard Harriers Burn Big Red, 25-30 | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

...chance to win. But he had no chance to win unless enough Americans backed him in the polls so that the voters thought he could win. Complicating his problem, the experienced professionals in both parties predicted repeatedly that as the election approached, Anderson's support would fade. Last week those predictions, partly self-fulfilling, looked accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Finally Caught by Catch-22 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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