Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, admissions officers and four guides at Princeton and Yale have played games with prospective students, trying to persuade them can you believe? That the Harvard name isn't worth peanuts anymore...
...mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then I moved in with a guy. I was 15. Oh, my God, isn't that terrible?" At the suggestion of her parents, Arquette made her stage debut in Los Angeles at 17, then appeared in low- budget movies until her first big break, as Gary Gilmore's spacey girlfriend in TV's The Executioner's Song (1982). About that time she moved...
...Chrysler's bad times have firmly shoved him over toward the Democratic Party, and the prickly free-enterprise purity of the Reagan Administration has kept him there. He is a Democrat, isn't he? "Yeah, I guess I am," Iacocca told TIME, "when you put it that way--straight Democrat versus Republican. The Democrats today are more pragmatic, not so ideological...
...former executive under Iacocca at Chrysler, elaborates on the Reagan analogy. "Some of the things Lee has tapped into are the same as Reagan," he suggests. "The nation has been looking for a leader who is sure of himself, who calls a spade a spade--even if it isn't. He oversimplifies issues, and people like that. But Reagan is shallow. Lee is not. He's a hell of a lot smarter than Ronald Reagan and a hell of a lot deeper." Iacocca has already proved himself on television. Even he alludes to it, jokingly, as a political asset. "Cronkite...
...above all the ideal of the untutored eye unobstructed by academic culture, registering the world with the clarity, as the cliche used to run, "of a child or a savage." Rousseau's innocence might have been invented to refresh the culturally burdened. There you are, it declared: late industrialism isn't so bad, it leaves little pockets with elves like me in them. The urban primitive has no style--or rather he has one that consists of absences: no correct drawing, no perspective, no knowledge of art history or cultural politics. He sings like a bird, without learning a score...