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...welfare recipients, but the older among them are going to be hopping mad--and a lot may vote--if it means already puny Social Security checks shrink further still. A few Democrats have already jumped on this bandwagon; more should follow, for it will be the first opportunity to remind Americans just what government austerity means. In no time, the T.V. news will be crowded with old people who eat dog food. Reagan and David Stockman may back off, and if they do, so much the better. But if they don't, then the Democrats should gut it out, fighting...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: No Last Hurrah | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

...view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself the benefits she might reasonably expect, and preserved to her children the blessings, on which those benefits were founded"--a message sure to move almost anyone. Shaw's choice...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Sins of the Fathers' Fathers | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

Lives of great men all remind us As their pages o 'er we turn, That we're apt to leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...taking the plunge: the victory made him, at 27, the youngest golfer ever to earn more than $1 million in tournament purses. "I hadn't won in so long, I wanted to make sure this one soaked in," said Pate. "I just wanted to be sure to remind myself how much fun winning is." Now golfers, who have long admired Pate's classic swing, can contemplate his equally stylish diving form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making a Splash | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...must remind oneself that human beings-actors, actually-are also involved in the enterprise. Carole Bouquet (23, long dark hair, Aegean-blue eyes, lissome frame) is the love interest, and more: a warrior goddess who saves Bond's life at least as often as he saves hers, and a welcome addition to this summer's gallery of can-do heroines. Topol, as the wily Greek smuggler Columbo, should be in the "Guinness Book of Word Wreckers"; he is perhaps the first performer to demonstrate the art of overacting by chewing pistachio nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Perpetual Motion Machine | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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