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...tall man with twinkling eyes, an impish grin and a boyish exuberance, Bill joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1957, not long after graduating from Occidental College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He opened a bureau for us in Anchorage in 1958 and later served as bureau chief in Nairobi and New Delhi. He was for many years a senior writer in the World section and, since 1989, a senior editor of our International editions...
...thinking, what's this article going to be called?" McCartney asks gamely with a grin. "My bet's on 'Paul at Fifty' so that everyone can go, 'What? Jeez-us Curr-hrist! He's fifty! He isn't, is he? Bloody hell! That makes me old!' That's what they want. They want to use me as a gauge." He laughs and winks. "So use me as a gauge, and have a good time, and thank you very much for noticing...
...quit to become a gardener) and mother Linda (a hospital unit secretary who grew up on an Ohio pig farm) are white. His brother and sister are Black. His other brother is Iranian. And in 1980--about the same time Mount St. Helens erupted, Thomas says with a grin--Kerby ran away with a gay lover. Today, Kerby and Linda are best friends, living a few blocks apart in Portland, Ore. Every now and then, they tell their story on a TV talk show...
Gorbachev's speaking style, usually discursive and indirect, is more hortatory than ever, almost condescending in its certitude. He can pontificate, but then compensates by flashing his grin, bouncing in his chair and making a sweeping gesture to pull in his listeners. There is much that is theatrical in his performance, beginning with his voice, which he projects like an operatic baritone. He takes many questions as personal criticism and obviously believes the best defense is a good offense, demolishing the questioner's premise as he bulldozes into the points he wants to make...
...NEITHER the knockout for Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton that pundits had once predicted nor the upset for former California Governor Jerry Brown that seemed possible in the heat of the ugly brawl there. As both candidates limped back to their corners, only Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas had reason to grin: he came in second by staying away...