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...understand why your story on John Updike did not mention his imagery. Anyone who has read Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu will long remember sentences like this one: "The crowd, like an immense sail going limp in a change of wind, sighed with relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1982 | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

Even assuming the optimistic scenario and more consumer spending, the business pickup is not expected to be as strong as after other recessions. Said Eckstein: "It will be a limp recovery." Board mem bers expect the gross national product to increase 3.1% in 1983. The first year after the severe 1974-75 recession, the U.S. economy expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the Consumer | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Welcome," said Commandant Azmi Zghayar. He was about 5 ft. 10 in., carried a cane and walked with a slight limp, the result of a wound suffered during a raid on Israel. He wore a khaki wool sweater and green fatigues, and a pistol was tucked into his hip pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Can Make Them Pay | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...student constitution. Though more than half the student body failed to vote "yes" in a flawed campaign, the constitution is now entrenched as the supposedly legitimate expression of student desires. The subsequent apologies proffered after the fact to justify the vote's results have proved rather limp...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The End of Apology | 4/9/1982 | See Source »

...should stick to producing musicals. In trying to decry the decaying world of the modern hero by updating The Odyssey. Vonnegut chokes Happy Birthday Wands June with clamsy ploys to manipulate the audience. Broad and almost cliched themes, sheltered and stereotypical characters, and dialogue which through witty is ultimately limp scar the play. Wanda June is a playwright's mangled by better left in the closet...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heroes for Zeroes | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

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