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Your attack on Ronald Reagan's use of statistics [April 14] is a red herring. All that matters is Reagan's goals: less government and a stronger America. As the results show, voters care not for statistical analysis. Neither should TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1980 | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty details of time and space that he rises above...

Author: By Paul R. Q. wolfson, | Title: Psychoerrata | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

...Olga, a 19-year-old, one-ton Atlantic walrus, who likes to squirt water at visitors. Because she is so expensive to keep, Brookfield is letting anyone share Olga for a donation of $15. So far the zoo has raised $13,000, enough to feed Olga 55 Ibs. of herring and mackerel a day throughout 1980. It also covers the expense of Olga's Christmas tree: a fir decorated with fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: And a Fish in a Fir Tree | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...natural levels' argument we heard tonight is a red herring," Brain Feigenbaum, a Boston University law student, said. "The natural levels of radiation are not good for you either," he explained...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Councilors, University Officials, Santa Discuss Radioactive Waste Questions | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

...delegate from Dahomey, admitted that "in essence Zionism was not related to apartheid", yet in the same breath he linked the two. American publications made the same spurious connection. One letter drew an explicit analogy between South Africa and Israel, terming Jewish fear of anti-semitism a 'red herring...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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