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...category of "mishandled" baggage, the Government has failed to specify whether this means luggage that is damaged, late in arriving, just plain lost or any of the above. At least one airline, United, even reported as part of that category lost-and-found items that absentminded passengers left behind in boarding areas. In the case of on-time performance, airlines were not required to report delays caused by mechanical difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Up, Up And Awry | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...details, as with the fragments of two angels from a demolished late 13th century tomb in Sawley in Derbyshire -- faces and drapery so refined in their carving, and yet so plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blazing Exceptions to Nature | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...dispassionate figure who has sparked little excitement. On the stump in Iowa, he tells voters that they must choose the person they trust the most. But even as he works to personalize the race with a what-a-nice-young-man appeal, Gephardt remains the candidate in the plain vanilla wrapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Dick Gephardt:Young Man In a Hurry | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...States, he said that once the Sandinistas have begun "serious negotiations" with the contras, his Administration would "be ready to meet jointly with the foreign ministers of all five Central American nations, including the Sandinistas' representative." The call for "serious" talks was purposefully vague, and one underlying message was plain: no bilateral talks between the U.S. and Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America The Wright Stuff | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...marriage between a purple-skinned polygamist and a rich Manhattan heiress. Her story of a reformed cannibal, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a native of the South Pacific island of New Burnt Norton, who visits New York City and finds a wife is pretentious, irritating and--worst of all--just plain boring to read...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: A Jerk In Manhattan | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

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