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...choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan in the past 18 months, a feat that vaulted him over the heads of more veteran G.O.P. figures to the top of the New Jersey Reagan-Bush campaign committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Negotiator For Labor | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...

Author: By Brian M. Sands, | Title: Second Avenue Serenade | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

...yard Butterfly McCloskey held off an early challenge from Frick to take the race and the record with a time of 59.88--a feat all the more impressive considering that both swimmers had just finished the grueling 400 I.M. minutes before...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: B.U. Drowns Aquawomen In Opener | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...gates, the walls, the plaza, the pyramids are all superhuman in scale, built with intent to awe. But not everyone appreciates the sheer physical feat of building the thing--some people remember instead the blocks of inner-city residences that were torn down to make space for it, the families displaced by the construction. And some are embarrassed by its size. There is a joke among Taiwanese students that when a young man from the southern city of Kaohsiung came to Taipei for the first time, he walked all the way around the memorial wall to see the designs...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

This movie is going to start a lot of arguments. On the one hand, it is Allen's most accomplished feat of direction yet. But on the other hand...

Author: By Sol LOUIS Siegel, | Title: Stardust Memories | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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