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...people to know that there is a central core in him that they can relate to and trust. "When they know me better, they will know that about me." Just by making it to the arena, after all the rough and bitter days and nights when he did not skulk away, Clinton has shown that there is some iron in that core. Unlike Perot, he does not quit when he tires of the ordeal or blame others for his troubles. Clinton will find out in November whether the public came to know him better this week and liked what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton's Big Bash | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...deal? Only dreamers still hope that the Prime Minister's hard line is a negotiating gambit. Realists know better. Most skulk away depressed. Some summon the courage to strike back, as George Bush is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Nobody Does Nothing Better Than Shamir | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

Tough competition calls for unfamiliar methods. Members of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce are not the sort of people who skulk around to clandestine meetings, but the city is hungry for new business, and, by golly, they're willing to do what it takes. When a relocation consultant brought a corporate team to town to see what Greater Cincinnati could offer, the visitors insisted on complete secrecy. No problem! Eight Cincinnati corporate leaders gathered in a small club dining room to sing the praises of their town to "Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike," four strangers identified only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On Down! Fast! | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

MILLIONS WATCHED when a tuxedoed Sylvester Stallone came to the Hasty Pudding last February to guzzle eggs, mumble platitudes and skulk off with Harvard's most crass theatrical prize...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: John Avildsen: | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

Black cats skulk underfoot; the faces on wall icons frown with disapproval at any liberal impulse; the chief servant, Justina (a delicious turn by Harriet Andersson), has the butch haircut and sadistic ca prices of a prison-camp guard. In this house of silent horror the children can take refuge only in dreams of escape - to the arms of an old family friend, the Jew Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), whose house has some old, dark secrets that, in the mind of a child, can seem as exciting as black magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: House Guests | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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