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Eaton, by contrast, is a rumpled, low-key executive who arrives free of entangling alliances and is willing to wait nearly a year to take Iacocca's job. While Eaton was not the architect of GM's European turnaround, he maintained the momentum of that business after becoming president in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automobiles: Jockeying for Position | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Sometimes, as with the new romantic comedy Frankie & Johnny, the fantasy is a love song for what's left of New York. Playwright Terrence McNally loves the city as only a recruit from Corpus Christi, Texas, can. Director Garry Marshall, a native New Yorker, loves it as one who has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead End on Sesame Street | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

The Democrats have always had patrons and participants of great wealth, but they were guided by a lot of folks off the streets and shop floors. Fifty years ago, the caustic, rumpled Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency The Greatest Eclipse | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

The tip seemed all the more strange coming from a man who, wearing khakis and a rumpled t-shirt, looked like the consummate budget traveler.

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Fa-a-a From Paradise | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

He looked and sounded weary as he mounted the podium. Bags bulged under his eyes; his thinning white hair was rumpled; his words came slowly at first. But as he warmed to his theme, his voice grew louder and shook with indignation; he waved his finger and brandished a fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Next: A Crackdown - Or a Breakdown? | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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