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...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...That's very kind of you," said Fallaci. And since you said so, I'm going to take off this stupid, medieval rag right now." When she did so, recounts Fallaci, Khomeini got up "like a young cat" and left the room without saying a word. Khomeini, however, agreed to see her again the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Khomeini and the Veiled Lady | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Schigolch, the old man who may be Lulu's father and who is as good a key as any to Berg's newly retrieved third act. Schigolch is the none too comforting image of what is left after passion and violence are spent: a scrabbling, wheezy, lecherous rag bag of a survivor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Arrives in Full Dress | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

James Brown: The Original Disco Man ( Polydor). See what the man says? Don't argue. This is James Brown, the regent of volcanic soul, and even after all these years (say around 20) and some pretty rag ged records, royalty is due some respect. Nice thing is, James does not warrant any special considerations this time around. This is a solid, soulful record that shows where disco went to school. At least one cut, the wonderfully titled It's Too Funky in Here, could be played on the radio from now to Christmas. -Jay Cocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Times and other media sent correspondents to Mozambique and Zambia, to cover the war from the guerillas' side. But that's not likely--foreign correspondents cost too much money, and the Times is, after all, the newspaper of record, which is why it will keep on parroting the Salisbury Rag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guns And Butter | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

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