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...aisle, anxiously tugs his bowtie, smiles as a small army of press cameras assaults him, and takes a seat. The show's producers take the stage, nervously fumble their introduction, and Travolta moves towards the mike. And stands there. Sheepishly, he throws his arm into a Saturday Night Fever diagonal, to cheers; then the band steps in to save him--playing "Happy Birthday," it conveniently being Travolta...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

Stone--competing with a fever--dived well enough to edge teammate Adriana Holy by .05 in the 1-meter and by 2.15 points in the 3-meter to capture the first-place laurels...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Men Swimmers Rip Cornell; Women Fall to Yale | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...most of the 14½ months everyone held to the hostages and were held by them simultaneously, like a disease of the blood. There was little energy for anything but the disease. Perhaps the greatest loss the U.S. endured was a loss of bearings -a fever dream filled with shattered helicopters and the faces of strangers, red with hate, straining to pop into the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages Essay: Learning Lessons from an Obsession | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...people-mainly mothers with young children-fled their frigid homes to sleep, eat, read, iron and pass the gloomy days on Army-issue cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Cold, Too Hot, Too Dry | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...legions exist to prove that what Presidents have done is wrong and what they want to do cannot be done, or will not work if it is done. This kind of assessment is a high-tension endeavor, employing perhaps a quarter of a million people, and never more at fever pitch than during a presidential transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Potomac Transition Fever | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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