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...meeting between members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) and Black student leaders broke down last night after a member of the Seymour Society--a Black student group--accused "white leftists" of being less productive then Blacks because they were preoccupied with "glamour...

Author: By Stephen L. Davis, Jesse M. Fried, and Michael W. Hirschorn, S | Title: SASC Meeting Disintegrates Following Attacks on Integrity | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Gloria Swanson, 84, quintessential symbol of movie glamour for seven decades; of heart disease; in New York City. Early on, Swanson said, "I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody, from the studio gateman to the highest executive, will know it." Even when she was in eclipse, everybody did. She got her Hollywood start in Mack Sennett comedies, followed by a series of naughty sex farces. Ambitious for more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Many have cried that such a move was foul play, and that issues--the true purpose of the gathering--took a back seat to the glamour of the political pageant. And their argument is bolstered by the fact that the straw poll, originally scheduled as the last item on the weekend agenda, was moved earlier in the day, so the results could make the network news and the early Sunday papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Life Of the Party | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American glamour, and come back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...busy coke-abuse clinic. Even when Steve, 30, a Miami land salesman, was arrested for possession and found himself in jail overnight, it was, like, you know, a real trip. "I was with vagrants, drunks and car thieves," he says. "It was unreal, bizarre, like The Twilight Zone. "The glamour of outlawry, with the ante upped considerably, is also an attraction for many dealers and even some smugglers. Says a DEA official in Florida: "Breaking the law may not be just incidental to the white Americans involved in dealing cocaine. It may be essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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