Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just another medium. While television and newspapers give you a glimpse of the news, TIME digests it all, then tells you what happened, in a framework that goes beyond the clutter to make sense of the world. Thanks in part to the clout of our 29 million readers and the unique relationship we have with them, the magazine has unparalleled access to the people who shape the news. Raisa Gorbachev, in Washington last week, pronounced herself a regular reader...
...October, up 25% from September. The news threw the world's currency traders into a frenzy, and the dollar plummeted to its lowest levels against the Japanese yen and the West German mark since the 1940s. The turmoil could not help pushing urgent questions into the minds of every reader of the financial pages: What is going on with the U.S. economy, and what is going to happen in the new year...
...Billy Phelan's Greatest Game) in Kennedy's Albany trilogy, with its wry poetic naturalism. The bums in Ironweed were not noble, but they had their own gravelly, poignant voices. The family Francis left behind was ordinary as linoleum, but their emptiness left a sympathetic ache in the reader's gut. Francis was drab and cramped on the outside, that husk of a booze-wracked body, but he didn't live there. He came to life inside, with way too many other people -- the loves, enemies and chances he had lost -- in the decaying mansion of his memories. What...
...dear reader...
Perhaps you may think, dear reader, that within the gates marked "abandon all hope, and grow in wisdom" this writer has acquired knowledge of a more earthy nature. For what is Harvard really known for, in the "real world," if not as the nursery of captains of industry and political masterminds? But the truth is that I never joined the Student Productions Association, never met the undergrads who wear power ties to lunch in the Union. I never tapped into the great politico-economic power grid they call "the old school tie." I may be an ass, but I have...