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...flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan, at 70, looks healthier than he did before his election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President Flexes His Muscles | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts with a shy grin: "Sometimes it's so shallow your ulcers start chewing each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when he played for the Birmingham Black Barons, had turned 64 this year and was obviously pleased with himself. "Boy, I still got it," he said with a grin. Across the way a gnarled old man with a bat on his shoulder stooped over an imaginary home plate while a pitcher grooved a hardball precious inches away. Near by, Chet Brewer, 74, pitching ace for the Kansas City Monarchs, was telling how Luis Tiant Sr., who pitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: A Baseball Reunion | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Postdated | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...merely has to smile frequently at you," addmitted crusty Field Marshall Montgomery, "and you trust him at once. " But if that grin became as famous as the Mona Lisa's, it was also enigmatic. Behind the aging Huckleberry Finn face was as shrewd and calculating a mind as has ever won a war or run a country. Dwight David Eisenhower, his diaries make clear, could have given a few lessons in statecraft to Machiavelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Huck Finn Face | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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