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During times of crisis, the captain belongs on the bridge and should not be running around the ship debating with a braying jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1980 | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...fact, Reed is an indifferent performer by American standards and a habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...surviving herd of buffalo can be visited a few miles away (it had few visitors), and 2) there was an authentic rodeo for the road runners. The rally attracted some 7,500 people and 2,078 motor coaches, many bearing names such as It's a No Bus, Jackass Flats, Big Debt, Stick It Inn and Daddy's Dog House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: The Motor Homers Gather | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...would be a jackass if I told you I didn't want to be number one--I've worked too damned hard not to," Preusser said yesterday. "I can't imagine why the Real Paper would put me on top. I'm not the stereotypic person they would put on top. I'm 52 years old and not terribly attractive, but I'm bright, I'm a fighter, and I'm effective," she added...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: News Shorts | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

...obstructing the probe, Mitchell this year began serving a 2½-to eight-year term while Magruder got out of prison in January 1975 after having served seven months. Nixon professes nothing but "compassion" for Mitchell, who, he says, was "too smart to ever get involved in a stupid jackass thing like Watergate." But, alas, Mitchell "could only think of that poor Martha and that lovely child Marty, and so that's the human side of this story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Now, Another Villain | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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