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Right now such polls show Hart no stronger than Mondale. What is more, Establishment delegates like Kelly tend to lean toward Mondale. "Ninety-five percent of the state's party leaders are with Mondale," he notes, "and they are the people who put me in office." In any event, labor leaders, who will control hundreds of delegates, are not likely to desert their main man. Says a top Hart aide: "Let's face it. They'd bring in a mummified Mondale to the convention at this point just to save face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wild Ride to the End | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...them." Yet his wife Linda swears that he eyes women on the street only to reckon their Army qualifications: a passing teen-ager looks to be about 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lbs.-a tad too chunky. "Guys, in essence, can be little butterballs," says Yasenak, who is perfectly lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Missionary | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...lovable kook with the carefree sex life and oddball ideas has been transmuted into a role model of a self-possessed, successful woman at 50. Shirley MacLaine, who always attracted affection, now commands respect. Her triumph is proof of the power of positive thinking-and action. MacLaine is lean, fit, happier and more attractive than ever. She has worked hard to keep limber physically and mentally, and she welcomes the birthday that saddens so many people: "I love the idea of 50, because the best is yet to come. I am going to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...narrow street in the town's crowded Bellavista neighborhood. (The vehicle was later removed to a compound near Juárez, and then to an isolated area 20 miles from the city.) "Children played on the truck," says Sotelo. "People would stand beside it, talking, and lean back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Aftermath of a Nuclear Spill | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...Gibson, as Mr. Christian, shows himself capable of expressing with anguished force the conflict between duty and decency that has been tearing at him. The trouble stems from the crude truncation of a script that began many years ago as blueprint for a two-part David Lean epic. Originally the idea must have been to free the story of its mythical and melodramatic encrustations and get at something like the historical truth. The finished film offers fragmentary evidence of an attempt to show Bligh, not Christian, as the liberal spirit, an ambitious, intelligent, even sensitive representative of the rising middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Becalms a Legend Most? | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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