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Such breathlessly gee-whiz reportage will inevitably strike many people as decidedly off-key in a time of economic uncertainty and strife. A poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. reported in December that among other disappointments, Americans by and large feel worse off today than they did a year ago. Nor will Kahn's profile win awards for methodology. Not one of the dozen or so "typical" Americans was quoted, say, while shuffling along an unemployment line. And some readers may quarrel with the Panglossian assessment of the California raisin farmer who beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annual Surprise | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...Carole would make a lot of jokes like, 'Gee, Frenesa, the whole floor shakes when you run!'" Hall recalls. "She probably thought it was best to make the whole situation seem amusing, but it was just like when your mother always nagged you to clean your room. Of course, you're just going to make it messier than ever...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Frenesa Hall | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

...sudden glare of the limelight, Skutnik admits that fame has begun to grow on him. His wife says that he might even feel a twinge of regret when it passes. "When things started to calm down a few days ago, he said to me, sort of half joking: 'Gee, they've forgotten me already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skutnik in Orbit | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...Gee, Thanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer Foundation Funds New K-School Auditorium | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...siren song of the Associated Press, Four bells to tell us we're out of this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune was kissed, We began the long task of preparing our list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Trek | 12/18/1981 | See Source »

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