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Such flamboyant gestures trouble some of her colleagues. Says Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, no shrinking violet himself: "Her style is a little bit rough on the edges." But others see nothing wrong with her flair for the dramatic. Noting that Allred is careful to keep her theatrics out sides of court, Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the California Court of Appeal says, "She does her homework; her success rate is good. She is both style and substance. So long as there is not an equal rights amen ment, there will be lots of work for Gloria Allred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Color Gloria Allred All Rebel | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...speech to the Politburo last week, Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko called for an increase in his country's defense capability. Then, in answers to written questions submitted by NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb, Chernenko suddenly appeared more conciliatory. If Washington is sincere about arms-limitation talks, he said, "we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Out of Action | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Spiro and a number of other observers find such justifications hard to accept. "Would they suggest that the world should forget the most criminal period in history?" asks Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which helped Spiro investigate the Viennese doctor's past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infamy Haunts a Top Award | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Though longtime Editor Marvin Stone still exercises day-to-day control, Evans has begun attending editorial and marketing meetings. Says he: "My job is to assess the New presence magazine and the role it plays. We want to come up with ways for the magazine to evolve organically. I'm more likely to emphasize reporting rather than soft features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: English Eye | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...most peculiar twists of the 1984 campaign, St. John's apocalyptic vision of the "End Times" emerged last week as a political issue. During the final presidential debate, Panelist Marvin Kalb of NBC asked Ronald Reagan, "Do you feel that we are now heading, perhaps, for some kind of nuclear Armageddon?" While Nancy Reagan gasped, "Oh, no!" to companions, the President answered that, yes, he had chatted with people about "the biblical prophecies of what would portend the coming of Armageddon and so forth, and the fact that a number of theologians for the last decade or more have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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