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Michael Deaver has a lot of company in other Reagan Administration officials who have left the public payroll to represent private interests in Washington. An alphabetical sampler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolving Door | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Something is happening to the state of Texas and the state of basketball, once as compatible as cattlemen and sheepmen in the West. Next to "Remember the Alamo," the most threadbare sampler this side of the Pecos must be retired College Publicist Jones Ramsey's familiar line, "There're only two sports in Texas--football and spring football." Former University of Texas Basketball Coach Abe Lemons laments, "You can lay a football down in a parking lot and draw a crowd," but college jump shooters have been a rougher sell in the Lone Star State. Historically, pro basketball has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lone Star Whoops for Hoops | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...critic sampler: "low budget...mediocre brick laying...vigorous...an answer to our dreams...aggressive...raw...full of creative virtuosity...ugly...worldly...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Stirling's Sackler: Worth Weight in Gold? | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...tripled in size since last year. Customers are crowding a silver-gray men's skin-care counter in Chicago's Marshall Field for shaving tips by white-smocked saleswomen. Estee Lauder, which already had the Clinique and Aramis labels, this year added Lauder for Men. A $20 sampler kit of the new Lauder line sold out in less than a week at Bullock's in Los Angeles. Says Baxter Finley, who for two decades has marketed his Baxter of California men's line: "In the last four years everyone and his dog is into skin care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Trading Faces, the Latest Wrinkle | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...were women, reflected the notable diversity of the graduates and ranged widely over topics from the dangers of nuclear war to the merits of wandering. Nor did the speakers neglect some themes that spring eternal. At Middlebury College in Vermont, Actor Burgess Meredith urged: "Make love! Propagate!" A commencement sampler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words of Hope and Warning | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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