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...media told me more than I wanted to know. Any day I fully expected the CBS Evening News to sign off as follows: "Thanks for being with us. This is Dan Rather reporting from inside the President's colon. Good night." George Zinnemann Upper Marlboro, Md. The Whiz Kid's Exit...
...NATION, July 22]. His candid Stockmanisms broke through the murky atmosphere of partisan political rhetoric like rays of sunshine. The clarity of his words and position gave hope to citizens who were tired of hearing horror stories about the deficit while watching its continued rise. Now that the Whiz Kid is leaving, the weather outlook is gloomy, and the chances for reducing the deficit seem bleak. Betty Driscoll Monkton...
...faded and the final SMILE AND BE HAPPY! posters have been torn from the walls, hundreds of Kristis and Brandis and Dawns and Lolitas, winners all, tuck their teddy bears under their arms and file, a little sadly, into the buses that will take them back to parents and kid sisters and competition for boys and competition with boys and grades that will often be less than Superior. "Many of them write to me years later," says Olmstead, "to say that their days at camp were the best four days of their lives ." --By Pico Iyer
TIME generally avoids slang and jargon and feels gutter language is best left there. Among discouraged words are cop and kid. Also scowled upon are clichés--nothing should become a household name--and the likes of "tantamount to" and "may well," "arguably" and "recently." (One of the managing editor's most sweeping suggestions, arguably, was: "Approach with caution any word that ends with ly.") For consistency, numbers below 13 are always spelled out, and contractions are avoided, except in quotations. Particularly troublesome are transliterations from such languages as Chinese, Russian and Arabic. In TIME, Libya's leader is Gaddafi...
...Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately. "If I was chasing Schmedley Milton, now that would be one thing," Rose says reasonably. "I would never have named my kid Schmedley. But Ty Rose, there's a name...