Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result is a rare glimpse into the private life of an ostensibly public man. Since 1927, when Aviator Charles Lindbergh became TIME's first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year's events, for good or ill. Gorbachev certainly meets the test. He is also the first Man of the Year whose cover portrait was taken from a lacquered Russian...
...December. "I'm going to stand up," he declared, and did, "to say we can balance the budget only by cutting and needs-testing expenditures and entitlements and by raising taxes." Only a long shot with little to lose, of course, can easily indulge in such bravery (and can ill afford not to). But it was no gimmick: Babbitt has for months been the most courageous candidate in trying to persuade average Americans that hard-nosed policies are the price they must pay to assure prosperity for their children...
...Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, he sent him a cable: "When I was a poor boy in Kiev some of your policemen were not kind to me . . . stop I came to America and prospered stop now hear with regret you are out of a job . . . stop feel no ill will . . . if you will come New York can give you fine position acting in pictures stop salary no object stop reply my expense stop...
...conspicuous flaws, a man who seems to draw strength from his own humiliation, and a natural loner in a profession that places a premium on warmth. Like Nixon, he is a fascinating touchstone of the times, whose character and psyche are both intensely familiar and strangely unfathomable. The ill-concealed bitterness that the political establishment displays toward Hart is more than merely political and situational; it is rooted in anger at an iconoclast who scorns convention. Mocking the pretensions and smugness of the system is not a new pose for Hart: he did it as George McGovern's campaign manager...
...guilty to involvement in the bombing of the ship. The two were released into French custody on condition that they not return to mainland France for at least three years. French Premier Jacques Chirac claimed that the agreement had allowed an "automatic return to France" if either agent became ill...