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...Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini as a turncoat and a pawn of the Establishment. But he has refrained from criticizing Reagan or bringing up the subject of Senate control. "It wouldn't sell well in Nevada," he explains. Reid even displays an autographed photo of himself and the President on his office wall. Reid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Democrats Recapture the Senate? | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson laxwomen will look for some scoring help from a promising incoming trio: Sharon Landu of Rye Neck, N.Y.--who tore up many of her state's scoring records--Lisa Cutone of Wilmington, Mass. and Elizabeth Peg of Scarsdale...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Future Major H's Hit the Yard | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson laxwomen will look for some scoring help from a promising incoming trio: Sharon Landu of Rye Neck, N.Y.--who tore up many of her state's scoring records--Lisa Cutone of Wilmington, Mass and Elizabeth Peg of Scarsdale...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Future Major H's Hit the Yard | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...tentative striptease in the Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walt's Precocious Progeny | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...extremely difficult to peg exactly why we separate many foreign policy issues into good and evil. One obvious reason is that it makes it easier to swallow complex concepts. But are Americans inherently more stupid than the rest of the world? Not likely...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: An American Apologist Abroad | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

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