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"Now just a moment," protests Nixon with a fleeting half-smile. "Period," says Frost.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NIXON TALKS | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

The men and rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Grand Writer a', Nane Better | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...if I have received many awards, awards fleeting as butterflies, fragile as pollen, I have attained a greater prize, one that some people may deride but not many can attain. I have gone through a difficult apprenticeship and a long search, and also through the labyrinths of the written word...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: The Song Was Not in Vain | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Quirky Insight. Mikey and Nicky is the work of three gifted people-the two leading actors and the writerdirector, who has been responsible for two of the funniest and most startling comedies of the decade, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid. But here Falk and Cassavetes seem at sea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hit Men | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

With his new marshal's uniform decked out in numerous awards and medals, with his name glorified in official journals and his words studied by every Russian schoolchild, Brezhnev can scarcely avoid the charge that he has created a cult of personality that may soon rival that of Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Brezhnev: A Comfortable Hero | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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