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After reviewing Vicki Morgan's tawdry yet strangely pathetic accounts of Alfred Bloomingdale's sexual depravity, Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. last week dismissed most of her multimillion-dollar palimony suit, asserting that the relationship between the millionaire and her was "no more than that of a wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

The President's carping is especially pathetic in light of the hype that accompanied the 1980 supply-side millenium. In the President's own words of last September, the tax break budget cut bonanza was supposed to usher in "an American Renaissance that will astound the world" a transformation so...

Author: By Clinck Lanic, | Title: The 10.1 Percent Solution | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

So far, however, the only thing more pathetic than the President's effort to blame the past for his own failure has been the Democrats response to the Great Communicator's logic-defying vertical onslaught. Most polls still defect a sizable--though diminishing--"give the man a chance" sentiment that...

Author: By Clinck Lanic, | Title: The 10.1 Percent Solution | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

Napolitano deserves all the vituperation she has gotten, for plagiarism is the most serious academic crime possible. Her pathetic attempts to weasel out of penalties on sophistries--she insisted just two weeks ago that "there was no attempt on my part to deceive" her Spanish professor--warrant equal criticism. But...

Author: By Paul A. Engeimayer, | Title: An Incentive to Gab | 10/5/1982 | See Source »

One by one, the bodies were lifted from the agonized postures of sudden death and shrouded in brown blankets by volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: God - Oh, My God! | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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