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...President can also disappear from TV screens when it suits him. No videotape exists of his ordering the Marines to retreat to the ships; this was one announcement he did not make on-camera. As his former political strategist John Sears says, "He walks away from more political car crashes than anyone...
...closet with printed fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other comforts. The author spends many hours reading and writing in her clothes-lined retreat. This way may lie a new departure in fashion: clothes to wear in the closet. -By MichaelDemarest. Reported by Mark Seal/Dallas and Tara Weingarten/Los Angeles
...Gould is attempting a retreat from publicity. "The most important thing in life is my research and my students, and I have to keep my time for that," he says. But recently Gould was again in the news with the CBS show "60 Minutes" doing an episode...
...worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that his biggest indulgence is just being himself...
Unfortunately, the condition of many Blacks did not improve during this period. The Reagan Administration has virtually ignored the problem; indeed its retreat on civil rights enforcement and its budget cuts have exacerbated it. Yet even if a sympathetic Democrat such as Walter Mondale were to win office in 1984, the outlook for the Black poor still appears quite bleak. For the reinstatement of the traditional civil rights policies will probably not affect a large number of Blacks who will most likely remain below the poverty line, locked outside the mainstream of American society...