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...greeted Gaddafi's latest setbacks with unconcealed glee. "We basically jump for joy every time the Chadians ding the Libyans," said a U.S. official. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman asserted that "Libya has illegally occupied Chad for a number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disputes Raiders of the Armed Toyotas | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Billy Bragg admits to being ideologically impure. With glee. Furthermore, he dismisses those people who pursue him, particularly in Great Britain urging him to stop "messing around with all this love shit...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Sizing Up a Genuine Bragg-Art | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

Ollie's rise has made grumpy those for whom the past month of conservative discomfiture had been a time of glee. They are dismayed that the country will not focus on important matters, say, on whether the presidential finding authorizing the Israeli second arms shipment was in compliance with the Hughes-Ryan amendment. Such matters, often referred to as the "facts," are overlooked while the nation takes in Ollie's hair, his uniform, his smile, his glint, his hound-dog eyes and his patriotic speeches. Millions swoon. The sophisticates despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oliver North | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Only Lisa Lindley, as Pentheus' mother Agave, conveys a compelling sense of this worldgone-bad. As leader of the maenads, she is a portrait of frenzy. Blood-splattered and hysterical with glee from killing a wild animal with her bare hands, Lindley's Agave touches upon the horror of Euripide's play...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: The Bacchae | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

Ninety minutes to show time: backstage at the World Theater, the 6-ft. 4-in. Keillor is now chest-deep in an army of young Hawaiians, the 49 members of the Kamehameha School glee club. Singer Kate MacKenzie, a.k.a. Sheila, the Christian Jungle Girl, rushes up to check a cue. Sound men and stagehands circulate. Buster the Show Dog signs autographs, in the person of Actor Tom Keith, who also does the voices of Father Finian and Timmy, the Sad Rich Boy, motor and siren noises and dandy skyrocket effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Leaving Lake Wobegon Garrison | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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