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Movies still are pretty much a national virus, and to people who really love them, "Citizen Kane" is the item to measure the others against. It's such a self-conscious work that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. "Kane" is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only So Funny... | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...White House that sports a Gay Nineties decor and a clientele that can range, on a given evening, from Washington office workers to White House staffers, along with political powers like House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill. As Columnist Rudy Maxa told it in a short but vivid item in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Jordan turned up one Friday evening with some friends, introduced himself to a young woman as Harvey Phillips and tried to strike up a conversation. When the woman, identified only as "an attractive advertising copywriter," ignored him, Maxa wrote, Jordan angrily spat some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tribulations of Harried Ham | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

What was more surprising than the thinly substantiated Post tidbit (Maxa said that the girl was a personal friend of his) was the stunning White House reaction. After seeing Maxa's item, Press Secretary Jody Powell counterattacked with an 8,000-word, 33-page denial that must be one of the more bizarre official documents ever to emerge from the White House. Among the supporting evidence was the transcript of a lengthy deposition taken by a White House lawyer from the saloon's barkeep, Daniel V. Marshall III. Marshall's recollection was that Jordan had been besieged: "Girls [were] coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tribulations of Harried Ham | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard Library Archives should also enjoy putting together a display featuring rare tickets to the 1898 Harvard-Yale contest and valuable sets from other years. Equally scarce collector-item game programs (including the 1914 Harvard-Yale scorecard, produced in the shape of a football) also are abundant...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: From Walter Camp to George Allen | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...Drug Administration approval in 1963 for its use as an investigational new drug for humans. In twelve years doctors treated some 15,000 patients, and reported that symptoms were relieved in most cases. Meanwhile, Baxter Travenol had applied to the FDA for approval of Disease as a prescription item for any licensed physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Papaya Fracas | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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