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At home, Interior Secretary James Watt was the man readers loved to hate. An Aug. 23 cover story on Watt and his policies, "Land Sale of the Century," set 268 mostly hostile pens to work. "Watt an obnoxious character behind that repulsive face on the cover!" said one punster. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1983 | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

From the start he seemed to be writing with five pens in hand: verse, stories, novels, biographies, essays issued forth as from a publishing house. The son of a London real estate agent was famous at 30, striding through the town like a caricature, a voluminous caped figure, swinging a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Fool | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

The view from the gift shop was upbeat as could be. In addition to the aforementioned paperweight/pencil holder, they had big fat pens with the U. N. insignia on it, and little dolls from various nations, that all smile at each other. What I didn't realize was that it...

Author: By Adam S. Coher, | Title: Display Of Bias | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

First on the list of any armchair shopper should be a new armchair. The Hexhedon PC1 (Neiman-Marcus) may look like Darth Vader's helmet, but around the black leather reclining seat the sybaritic unit includes such accessories as a miniature Sony color TV, a stereo system with color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ordering the Ultimate | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

The handsome silver-haired businessman stretched out his 6-ft. 4-in., 170-lb. frame on the metal bunk in Cell 2 B4 of "the glass house," the downtown Los Angeles jail where male prostitutes, muggers and murderers are kept in holding pens. Arriving in the custody of FBI agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bottom Line... Busted | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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