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DIED. Marcel Dalio, 83, demitasse-size comic and dramatic actor in French and Hollywood films; in Paris. Born Israel Moshe Blauschild of Rumanian Jewish parents, Dalio made his movie debut in 1933 and came to prominence in Pepe le Moko (1937). For Director Jean Renoir he anchored two great films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Marshal Grigory Potemkin, one of the more artful lovers of Catherine the Great, accomplished many things during his long domination of Russia, but he is best remembered for an illusion. To impress Catherine with the prosperity that he had brought to her subjects, he is said to have built handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Marshal Potemkin, Meet Your Fans | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Let us therefore salute Anthony B. Gliedman, New York City commissioner of housing preservation and development, who is carrying on a program worthy of Potemkin at his most imaginative. Confronted with the dilapidation and general ruin of the buildings he is assigned to preserve and develop, Gliedman has found an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Marshal Potemkin, Meet Your Fans | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Once the Government has solved all these problems, a cynic might ask whether there was any purpose in having a Government at all. A decal of President Reagan reading a speech into a battery of microphones would serve just as well as a TV image of the real President reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Marshal Potemkin, Meet Your Fans | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

THE SOVIETS, of course, have been equally intransigent. Poland and Afghanistan were clearly expansionist moves despite all of Pravda's explanations to the contrary. The Soviet nostalgia over 50 years of relations, remembering American Soviet relations as years of American perniciousness broken only by Presidents Kennedy and Roosevelt is only...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: It Takes Two To Tango | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

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