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The exultant crowds were gone, the banners proclaiming WE ALL LOVE YOU RON AND NANCY and FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW no longer festooned the broad avenues of downtown Seoul. But a week after Ronald Reagan's three-day visit, South Korean officials were still aglow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: When the Cheering Stopped | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

"I hadn't played a serious role in a long time, and I had programmed myself to be happy, gay, and jolly," he explains, insisting that he never felt comfortable playing the ancient betrayer. Reviewers nonetheless praised his performance, as did his director. "He will tell you what he's...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene, | Title: Hoofin' at the Puddin' | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Some famous advertising figures, of course, have so far escaped the fitness fad. The jolly old Quaker of Quaker Oats is as rotund today as when his paunchy figure first appeared in 1877.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherubic but Not as Chubby | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

This has some fairly horrifying implications?till death do us part, for one?but it is so close to character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royalty vs. the Pursuing Press: In Stalking Diana, Fleet Street Strains the Rules | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

Investments in tangible items were far less rewarding than bets in the financial markets. Real estate prices failed to keep pace with the Consumer Price Index, which was only 4.6% higher in November than a year earlier. The median price of a single-family house went up less than 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year It Paid to Buy Bonds | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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