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Bork found himself buffeted by conflicting counsel from friends. Washington Lawyer Leonard Garment (who irritated Bork by presuming to act as his public spokesman) yelled at him, "If you pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Bork's Last Stand | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...least one cult figure still retains a devoted following in China these days: Mickey Mouse. The perky Disney character pops up on Chinese garment and toy logos, on billboards and in newspaper ads. Mickey's smiling features are, in fact, one of the most ubiquitous Western images in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADEMARKS: The Great Helmsmouse | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...paperback whodunits to make room for new arrivals. He is an occasional player in an elite poker game often attended by Scalia and Chief Justice of the U.S. William Rehnquist. "He is serious when it comes to his work, which is serious," says Bork's friend, Washington Lawyer Leonard Garment. "He is a merry man when it comes to the general business of life. He is the antithesis of a stuffed judicial robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching The Last | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

Though he has made a lot of money defending wayward Government employees from Richard Nixon on down, Attorney Leonard Garment, currently counsel for Robert McFarlane, passionately denounced those in official Washington who "make a career of grabbing the headlines via the mechanism of witness- stoning under the klieg lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Culture of Criticism | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...women had cookie-cutter dresses. They were all A-lines, and the women looked like paper dolls cut in a row," says Designer Carolyne Roehm, who ships her minis to the stores considerably longer than those worn by her models. However, she jokes about "putting a note in every garment saying, 'I suggest that you will feel infinitely younger if you shorten this four inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Finally, Let There Be Legs! | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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