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...that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would snatch it from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Truly Unsentimental Cad | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...impressive comback effort Beckman also beat a B.C. contender, Louis Nunez, who came to match point before allowing Beckman to snatch the match from...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Netmen Take on New England | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

...conjure up moments out of time. They reconstitute things long gone, to the point that smells and images and a precise forgotten ache of the heart return hauntingly for a moment. The dramatization that occurs in the mind is intimate and utterly private. One has only to hear a snatch of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson ("Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/ A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,/ Woo woo woo") to be again in a rental car chasing Robert Kennedy's whistle-stop primary campaign across northern Indiana in May of 1968. And other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: They're Playing Ur-Song | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...disservice to the complex man he seeks to analyze. Caro insists that Johnson's conversion of a secret college social club into a political power on the Southwest texas campus revealed in the man a deviousness, a just for secrecy, and "a will of steel" plotting to "not only snatch existing power, but create . . . new power, of dimensions no students had ever had on campus before...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Another Power Broker | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...available from money-market mutual funds, commercial banks and savings and loan institutions were at last freed by regulators to offer federally insured free-market interest rates of their own to small savers. The result: a breathless nationwide scramble by banks everywhere to exploit their new-found freedom and snatch depositors back from the money funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Busts and Birth of a Rust Bowl | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

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