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Among them was George Bush, 54, a former Congressman, CIA director and U.S. envoy to Peking, who likes to be described as "the thinking man's candidate." Said he: "Call me a conservative, but one with compassion." Bush lunched with G.O.P. Congressmen, breakfasted with reporters and made a low-key speech in Georgetown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Big John: Back and Galloping | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Connery's cool rogue occasionally conveys a bit of Crichton's original intentions. The character's honest amorality stands in contrast to the false piety of the wealthy bluebloods he swindles. But Connery's low-key performance is often vitiated by Donald Sutherland's uncharacteristically broad caricature of a bum bling aide-de-crime. Then again, when the delicious leading lady is at hand, both men tend to fade away. The great train robbery may well have been the crime of its century, but it looks like petty theft compared with Down's ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lady Is a Thief | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...Radcliffe's major contributions to the world of learning is the "Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library for the History of Women," a major research institution as low-key and invisible to the average undergraduate as its century-old mother sometimes...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...their canvassing drive SASC members will hand out their flier "Harvard and South Africa" and take a "low-key" approach in clearing up any misunderstandings students may have and in encouraging them to sign the petitions, Molyneux said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: SASC--Circulates Divestiture Petitions | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here, in a disjointed narrative, he gives a low-key, comic and rather appealing picture of "the Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pendulum Left | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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