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...frazzle. But he hangs in there, functioning on pride and coffee. He sells a porcupine for $100, which is about $98.75 more than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: A Beastly Display | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Such threats and unethical advertising slink barely within legal limits of federal regulation on campaign procedure, and four different cases--all involving NCPAC--are now under investigation by the Federal Election Commission. But legal or not, these right-wing independents have had a profound effect so far on the politics of the decade, and it is more likely that the trend will continue. Even Reagan, in a recent press conference, when asked "how much consideration" he would give "to the advice" of such groups as the Moral Majority and people like Falwell, answered "I am not going to separate myself...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: The Awkward Age | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

Blame it on OPEC. Blame it on the mood of the country. Blame it on Suzanne Somers. Blame it on anything you want; there's plenty to go around. As the new TV comedy series finally slink into view after the actors' strike, an ominous trend becomes evident. The witty humanism of the best '70s shows-Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Taxi-has given way to jokes built around bustlines and pratfalls. Out goes the humor of social complicity, of reasonably mature characters; in stomps the japery of sexual humiliation, in which grimly aggressive caricatures swat each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Bodies in Question | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...since first place is decided by the combined times of the two runs. On the second run down Whiteface, Stenmark swept down the course in a style close to perfection. His timing, his anticipation of the gates, his relaxed air, gave the run a preternatural grace. A cat can slink across a dressertop dense with perfume bottles and barely brush them with its fur; Stenmark went through 55 gates like that. Near one of the final gates, his skis chattered into a left turn and slid slightly. He corrected, and shot home to a gold medal, more than a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Stunning Show, After All | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout the U.S., for once the cat gets out of the bag in New York, test makers must assume it will slink across state lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: . . .And New York | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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