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...California. 'They're coming around." Only a small fraction of the war's veterans, after all, came home with serious emotional problems, even though for a decade the Viet Nam veteran has been portrayed in films and on TV as a doped-up maniac itching to mow down strangers. More and more, says Horton, the public is "seeing vets not as baby killers but, at worst, as dupes-and, at best, as people who did heir patriotic duty." Yet the veterans remain wary. "The shift in America's mood is a subtle one," says Steve Bailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Homecoming at Last | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Piped classical music plays softly in the background. A pen-and-ink drawing of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's first postwar Chancellor, hangs in solitary prominence on one wall. Outside the office of the present Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, gardeners, mow the lawn and vacuum the leaves shed by the towering oak trees that screen the building from the Rhine near by. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald and TIME Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini last week, his first interview with a U.S. publication since taking office, Kohl spoke of his strong personal commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Helmut Kohl | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...wave to peers and even to discipline reality. A real jerk may be a nerkey, a combination of nerd and turkey. Is something gnarly? That may be good or bad. But if it is mega-gnarly, that is excellent. One may leave a sorority house at U.C.L.A. to mow a burger. Slang has less ideological content now than it had in the '60s. Still, it sometimes arises, like humor, from apprehension. High school students say, "That English test really nuked me." On the other hand, in black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., if you had a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Slang Is Not a Sin | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...With a beer in one hand and a bowl of pretzels near the other, the fans lean back to watch the professional football wars. The four-week-long National Football League strike, though, has halted those happy hours. The living-room quarterbacks now have little better to do than mow the lawn or wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrown for a Mighty Big Loss | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...Preakness: "Whirlaway came loping along counting the house with Arcaro sitting still as a bluepoint on the half-shell." To Smith, horses are people with four legs and wonderful names. What a pleasure to learn that a colt by the French stallion Compte de Grasse is named Mow de Lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sporting Life | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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