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...Nancy problems may always have been more media figment than real. Of the 60,000 letters addressed to Mrs. Reagan in the year, 90% are supportive or inquisitive, not negative. The great dress loan episode, believed by writers to be the most scandalous, drew 50 letters, barely a public nod. Decorating the White House with money donated by millionaires was supported 10 to 1. The new dishes were approved 3 to 1. With those results in, it is not much fun for the press to be against nesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: From Brickbats to Bouquets | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...netminder. The Eagles may have college hockey's finest goaltending trio in O'Connor, Billy Switaj and Doug Ellis. All three have played this year, but lately coach Len Ceglarski has been going with O'Connor, and it looks like the two-tournament veteran will get the nod on Monday. O'Connor, a true clutch goalie, sports a spectacular flopping style which has brought him a 90.49 save average...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Eagles, Huskies Set to Scrap | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Wally is clearly less well-fed than his companion. To him, stomaching Andre's ravings is a fair price for a fine meal, and he's willing to sit back, chow down, and nod...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Food for Thought | 1/22/1982 | See Source »

...people are talking. Street and Smith's Basketball Yearbook pegged the Crimson as the early favorite, Playboy predicted a second-place Harvard finish, and Eastern Basketball gave the Crimson the nod to cop the title...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Tune Up for Slate, Set Sights on League Crown | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...stature and Graeme Campbell is a robust and sympathetic Rodrigo when he forgets he's playing an idiot. But Aideen O'Kelly's Amilla is dowdy refugee form a detergent commercial, confusing ingenuousness with imbecility, and she is embarrassingly inadequate vocally in the last scene. And a special nod to Paticia Maurceri's grotesque, campy and mush-mouthed Bianca--the actress should be swiftly jettisoned...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: 'The Pity of It,' Iago | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

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