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Since taking office 13 months ago, Prem has been plagued by factionalism and cor ruption within his fragile coalition government. The result has been administrative paralysis, despite mounting inflation and commodity shortages. Though Prem has done little to stop the rot, he retains a reputation as a good soldier whose personal integrity is unquestioned. The army's young Turks, most of them 1960 graduates of the Thai Military Academy who formed the nucleus of a so-called Revolutionary Party, apparently hoped to capitalize on that image while offering Prem a fresh start. He refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Fast Fizzle for Coup No. 14 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...spring of 1969, gymnast Brian Eisenberg was quoted as saying, "You can have the best equipment in the world but it will just rot without a coach...

Author: By Jon A. Gordon, | Title: Gymnasts Struggle On Without Coach | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

...wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Vivant | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

MINIMALISM is the reduction to the essential. In theatre, the minimalist sifts through the rubbish heap of human existence, grabbing out the sparse edible pieces and tossing the rest back into the pile to rot. These few scraps, rare moments when people step out of their well-worn, meaningless grooves and follow instincts and impulses represent the minimalist thesis that most lives reduce to a few short intense moments. Gripping the production of David Mamet's Reunion tightly as a pack of howling canines chasing an axe murderer, director Sam Samuels and actors Alice Brown and Ralph Zito prove, with...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Mamet's Minimums | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

...ghoulish Star Trek villain MIT will snatch them from behind and suck all of the life juices from their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

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