Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goddam noise," says Sorrowful, and grudgingly gives her some milk. This is not really believable; nobody is that stingy, and nobody is slob enough to get corn flakes out of the box, as Matthau does, by sticking his paw in and grabbing a handful. It's just an actor doing a bit, and we are perfectly willing to watch...
...would like to know why your cover depicted the paw of the Russian bear caught in a steel trap in Afghanistan [Jan. 28] when it is the U.S. that is behaving like a wounded animal...
...prescient cover he had designed last January for the "Crescent of Crisis." Says Hoglund: "Back then we were careful to make the bear look interested but not too threatening, no bared teeth. This time, I saw the bear reaching into Afghanistan, and there was no doubt about it-his paw had claws." Hoglund, an art director for More, the now defunct journalism review, has done plenty of fast cover drafting since he joined TIME in 1977. "Disaster and late-breaking cover stories have a way of striking whenever Walter is away," he says. "First, the New York City blackout...
TIME'S cover of Jan. 15, 1979 (below), is just as timely for this year. The only change, distressingly enough, is that the contemplative Russian bear depicted there is now on the move: Afghanistan [Jan. 7] is caught between its jaws, and paw prints are discernible in Iran and elsewhere around the Persian Gulf. I dread to think what updating will be necessary for your cover a year from...