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...tactics of the Sparticist Youth League are reprehensible, yet they think that similar interference on their own part is justified. Maybe these moral relativists would appreciate the principle of toleration if students heckled and harassed their beloved Jesse Jackson during his next speaking engagement at Harvard. Anthony L. Gardner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Credibility | 5/8/1985 | See Source »

...days when a big network mini-series could mobilize the country around its TV sets night after night seem to have vanished. Though none of this season's mini-series were outright bombs, all fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: In Search of Maxi-Audiences | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...screen was silver in her day, and she gave it unforgettable polish and shine. Now Ava Gardner, 62, is bringing her glow to the phosphors of the TV screen for the first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Arbitrary, capricious, uncaring and unreasonable," fumed Governor Mark White of Texas. "Before the people of Deaf Smith County glow in the dark, sparks will fly." Said Booth Gardner, the incoming Governor of Washington: "I am worried about earthquakes and ground-water contamination." Declared Nevada's Governor Richard Bryan: "Nevada has already done its share in the nuclear arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unwelcome Christmas Present | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...power of the council has varied from President to President and chairman to chairman. The CEA's influence reached its height under Walter Heller, who advised Kennedy and Johnson and devised the very successful tax cut of 1964. Gardner Ackley, Heller's successor, recalls meeting with Johnson as often as three times a day. On occasion they talked economics while rambling around in a Jeep on L.B.J.'s ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs' em? | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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