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Inflation was the real enemy, said Gordon, even more than energy. Firing the Cabinet was not that big a deal. Just like pro football, said Monk, a quarterback of long ago. If you don't win, get rid of the team. But what was really bothersome, said bill, was why Carter had not fired those men earlier. Why did somebody else have to tell Carter to fire his Cabinet, and who was that somebody-Hamilton Jordon? For a moment in the Ideal café it seemed as thought Machiavelli had met his equals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The View from the Ideal Caf | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...account for the placebo's magic, doctors have resorted to virtually every kind of psychological and physical explanation. No luck. Drs. Jon D. Levine and Howard I. Fields and Oral Surgeon Newton C. Gordon, all of the University of California in San Francisco, may have hit upon an answer. In an experiment involving dental patients having molars extracted, they gave them either a placebo or the drug naloxone, which is known to block the effects of endorphin, a morphine-like pain reliever produced by the brain itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puzzling Pills | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Gordon Wayman Benton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...standard Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches lists only 296 denominations. Lutheran Theologian Arthur C. Piepkorn tracked down 735 North American groups for his Profiles in Belief (Harper & Row is up to Volume IV of this posthumous seven-volume work). Now comes J. Gordon Melton's encyclopedia listing 1,187 "primary" denominations in the U.S., which makes him America's champion church hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Hunter | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...perhaps even more as a Brooklynite who observed the "pulsating" panorama of Manhattan from the opposite bank of the East River), Allen captured the sense of urban movement by executing 90 per cent of his shots using a panning, tracking and dollying camera. Assisted by his director of photography, Gordon Willis, Allen created scores of dynamic long takes penetrating the New York City streets from different angles. Accompanying the characters, their camera embraces a characteristic part of the environment while maintaining a compositional coherence of the moving image. The background in these takes persistently changes in design and perspective while...

Author: By Vlada Petric, | Title: A Renaissance Of American Film Comedy | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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