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...others are doing any better. Cranston jokes that "I had a full head of hair until Reagan became President," but even his TV ads bring out a flaw that is not the California Senator's fault: in an age of imagery, his bony build and glistening skull are unpresidential. With his brains and looks, Gary Hart should be a winning candidate. But his natural reserve makes him seem cold, even condescending. Ernest Rollings looks like a President, yet his quick tongue outpaces even his nimble wit; he rambles, improvises and seems to startle himself, as well as his audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primed for a Test | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...WANING seconds of a Harvard victory over Yale, frenzied fans swarm onto the football field to take down the goalposts. Soon after, one of the metal structures falls, striking a Harvard student on the head. Sound familiar? It happened last year at Soldiers Field, leaving the student with minor skull lacerations. With that event so recent, it should not have come as that big a surprise when this year in New Haven, after another win, spectators again climbed the posts, bringing them down on a Harvard freshman and injuring her critically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Starting a New Tradition | 11/23/1983 | See Source »

...blood flooded from her skull, streaming down through her hair, her face, onto her shirt, and dripped off the hands of the friends who held her, scared that the metal beam would swing through again...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Red on Crimson | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...believe it! Ask and ye shall receive!" said Katherine E. Brown '83-4. Brown said she hoped to be Ghandi for Halloween and was immediately presented with a skull...

Author: By Katherine M. Peterson, | Title: Halloween Get-Ups on Sale at Pudding | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...book, which analyzes the successful management styles of such pacesetting companies as IBM, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Book | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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