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In some peculiar way, alcohol has become a convenient way to mitigate public embarrassments. Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy, Billy Carter and others have reported that their unsteady, occasionally weird behavior resulted from drinking. That sort of confession can be exemplary and thus publicly useful. But in others it can also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why and When and Whether to Confess | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Worn out and befuddled, Snaporaz is tucked into bed by two girls in go-go costumes. He hears giggling nearby, and crawls under the bed to investigate. A spin along a velvet-lined roller coaster track treats him to a panorama of his past sexual encounters. At the bottom of...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

Democratic Candidate Johnie A. Rodebush stressed religious faith and told voters he feels a lump in his throat every time he hears the national anthem. It was not enough. Nonetheless, Rodebush looked like a liberal in Michigan's mostly rural Fourth Congressional District, which had three times elected David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Believer | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

"Lately we have had the curious juxtaposition of Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury in the sky. I have never seen Venus so wonderful in my life and no one will again for a long time. Then, now, all the migratory birds are coming through and there are ten pairs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Papa's Moveable Treats | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

The vehicle for this latest goring is Cyrus Spitama, 75, emissary of the Persian King Artaxerxes, miserably stationed in Athens "amongst a people as cold and windy as the place itself." When he hears Herodotus lecture at the Odeon, Cyrus decides that the Greek historian has concocted a thoroughly slanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelogue | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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