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...going to put a man in a rowboat and send him out beyond the continental shelf if he has no place to go." (He did not say whether the Shah would be put in a rowboat if he did have a place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Metaphorosis | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

They seem adrift on a lazy summer outing, but Activists Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem are actually firing some shots across someone else's bow. The two rented a rowboat in New York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...innovator and a shaker," says an admiral. "But he couldn't command a rowboat. He can't get along with people." Observes a former CIA director: "I get the distinct impression that he doesn't know how to run that place." Declares an old agency hand: "He's a disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Has the Admiral Gone Adrift? | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...comforting to read the story on our Secretary of State Cyrus Vance [April 24]. It is good to know that someone in Washington doesn't consider the ship of state a rowboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Deep into this long, mawkish film, the script calls for Susan Sarandon to tumble from a rowboat into a stormy sea off Greece. What she plunges into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tabloid Style | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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