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Hinckley sat, pale and hunched, displaying no emotion, as the prosecution showed an NBC videotape of the shootings outside the Washington Hilton Hotel and questioned witnesses of the attack, including two of the victims, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. The prosecution also showed a startling ABC videotape of President Jimmy Carter campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 2,1980. While Carter shook hands in a crowd, Hinckley's face appeared, bobbing up and down, in and out of focus, only six feet away from the President. A week later Hinckley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loser of a One-Man Race | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...purpose of shoring up wealth, are each laced with a little lesson. In Tralla La, Scrooge suffers a nervous breakdown and, with Donald and nephews at his side, goes in search of a place "where there is no money, and wealth means nothing." They find a valley James Hilton might recognize, hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Duck with the Bucks | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Such verses prompted some critics to conclude that MacLeish's talent had never been an epic one. "He is, and always has been, poet," an wrote engaging Hilton and often Kramer of the moving lyric New York Times. But MacLeish lived in a time of desperate battles, and it must be said to his credit that when the trumpets sounded, the poet answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet for the People | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Shortly after assuming the management of the savings and loan, federal officials held a bidders' conference at the Hilton at the San Francisco airport for institutions interested in acquiring Fidelity. Representatives of 32 companies, two-thirds of them other S and Ls', showed up. The FSLIC said it would accept offers for Fidelity during the next 30 days and hopes the troubled institution will be taken over by another company within three months. Pratt and Yang announcing the takeover

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to the Rescue | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...better part of two hours, he keeps the viewer interested too. In this torpid movie season, Diva is to be seen and savored for Philippe Rousselot's electric-blue imagery, for Hilton McConnico's extravagant decors, even for the prodigal joy Beineix derives from parading his talent. And there are some quietly astonishing moments when, with just the touch of hand on neck, the film suggests a growing, reciprocal affection between diva and devotee. It is on these occasions that Beineix's seems a promising movie career indeed-when you can see the young man of flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flair Ball | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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