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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of his working and leisure hours with Carter's Georgians. Indeed, when three of them separated from their wives, the men temporarily moved in with him: first Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, then Image Maker Gerald Rafshoon and finally Presidential Assistant Tim Kraft. Says Caddell with a laugh: "The President told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy political treatises, whipping around town in his gold-colored Mercedes and partying with Jordan. Says he: "I work hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Pollster | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...that has endured. If Superman is the fantasy figure of sandy-haired, scrawny, neo-Nazi Kansas farmboys, then Dracula is for the urban or suburban adolescent: chubby, acne-ridden, excrutiatingly lonely, the boy with nothing to do after school but tear the limbs off Barbie dolls and masturbate. Girls laugh at him, or, worse yet, ignore him altogether...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...Frisco Kid just misses being very good, perhaps because although Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays. He is not really a pure Polish rabbi, he is Gene Wilder doing bits. We are asked to laugh at all too human failings, as we laugh at Tevye's in Fiddler on the Roof, but through some lapse of direction or acting, we are never really shown a man. - John Skow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blazing Bagels | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...setters of our profession." Having won a Pulitzer, as Pearson never did, Anderson now heads a successful journalistic cottage industry employing 17 reporters. He is seen five times a week on ABC's Good Morning America his columm appears in 942 papers.. He can thus afford to laugh at the fact in the nation's captital 30 years ago, an editor of the Washington Post ordered pearson's columm banished to the comic pages, " where it belongs." Several years ago, the post offered to put Anderson's columm on its more prestigous Op-Ed page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Muckraking Is Sometimes Sordid Work | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...nothing less (don't laugh) than a space elevator. First conceived by a Leningrad engineer, Yuri Artsutanov in 1960, it was reinvented by a group of American scientists a decade later. There is no doubt that in theory at least it would work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Best Is Yet to Come | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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