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...again. "The government is like an unmanned space ship with no objective and no map," groused Gad Yaacobi, the Labor Party's chief economic spokesman. Weizman said he voted against his own party to pre serve the Camp David accords, since many Israelis were blaming their econom ic woes on the return of the Sinai oil fields to Egyptian sovereignty. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Begin on the Ropes | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Heart transplants often fail. The body genetically rejects alien tissue. Similarly, most transplants of novels to the stage are doomed to failure. All authentic art forms possess an inviolable organ ic integrity. None functions properly as an interchangeable part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Triste Couple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Portable Music for One and All | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...addition, the destructive effects of Belgian colonialism on tribal life made a lasting impression on the son of a Polish patriot who had been jailed and exiled for his activities against Russian imperialism. During an overland trek from Matadi to Kinshasa, the Diary notes, he "met an off[ic]er of the State inspecting; a few minutes afterwards saw at a camp-[in]g place the dead body of a Backongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cardiograms of Darkness | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...among disaffected whites in the North too. He asked them to "send a message to Washington." He promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along shouting "law and order" as a code term for anti-black prejudice, and although he lost the Democrat ic nomination to Lyndon Johnson, he captured 29% to 43% of the vote in the Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin primaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wallace Quits | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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