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This rule also explains why every incumbent 20th century President who has been seriously challenged for renomination winds up either losing or retiring. Independent voters tend to be shaken by votes of no-confidence coming from within the President's political home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUR OWN MAN SAYS SO! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Erin F. O'Connell, a summer school student from Radford, Va., who was in the group accosted by the men, said she was shaken by the incident...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Two Men Accost Summer School Students in Yard | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...Delicate Balance opened on Broadway in 1966, four years after Virginia Woolf; it's a slimmer, more mysterious work. Tobias and Agnes are a middle-aged couple whose orderly suburban lives are shaken one evening by the arrival of their old friends Harry and Edna. The visitors have fled their home to escape some nameless fear. It soon appears that they plan to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: TWIN TERRORS | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

PORT ARTHUR, Australia: Australians are trying to come to terms with the enormous shock of Sunday's massacre that left at least 34 dead. Memorial services in Hobart drew hundreds of mourners, and the Prime Minister says the nation has been "shaken to the core." Martin Bryant, the man accused of opening fire on the group of tourists in Tasmania, is sedated and being treated for burns in the same hospital where several of the people he wounded are recovering. The staff there is on edge after anonymous callers threatened the nurses and doctors who are treating him. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath of a Massacre | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...Visibly shaken by this revelation, Earl nonetheless finds himself driving up to Chicago in his pickup truck in search of this unknown brother. He eventually tracks down Ray (Jones), who meets him with barely concealed hostility, and the two part with an apparently mutual desire never to see each other again. However, by a quirk of fate, Earl runs into four black youths who rough him up and make off with his wallet and his truck. Against his will, Ray is forced to take Earl temporarily into his own house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's 'A Family Thing,' and We Don't Understand | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

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