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Most grandmothers would faint at the very idea of finding a granddaughter in the centerfold pages of Playboy magazine. But when Karen Velez, 24, appeared as last December's Playmate of the Month, Doris Newman, 73, felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies...
...Square. Reporter Nancy Traver, herself a veteran of two Red Square state funerals in her 1 1/2 years with TIME, checked the new Politburo lineup during the televised funeral and interviewed Muscovites for their reactions to the change of leadership. Under a gray sky shimmering with tiny, faint snowflakes, and armed once again with his binoculars, Amfitheatrof watched Gorbachev, now the Soviet leader, atop the Lenin Mausoleum. "He looked somber but strikingly youthful and tough," says Amfitheatrof. But reporting on Gorbachev's accomplishments, life and health will not be Amfitheatrof's concern. He is leaving the Soviet Union...
Journalese, the native tongue of newsgatherers and pundits, retains a faint similarity to English but is actually closer to Latin. Like Latin, it is primarily a written language, prized for its incantatory powers, and is best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm...
...Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give him a human heart...
...someone dammed with faint praise in the preseason media guide: "has an accurate jump shot when left alone...