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...thinks Soviet military intervention is a danger right this minute. The more dangerous problem ahead is the subversion, with Soviet support, of pro-Western, moderate Arab regimes. That is a matter of great concern. If you saw an intensification of Soviet moves to stir up disorder in the Middle East, that would be an overall statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice-President Bush: A Low Profile | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...STIR CRAZY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comedy: Big Bucks, Few Yuks | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Perhaps Pryor does too much watching: Wilder gets to do all the arabesques while his partner waits for him to fall to earth. Viewers too must stand around as Stir Crazy makes wrong turns, slogs across Saharas of unnecessary plotting, and unravels at its denouement. But that may simply make the triumph of Wilder and Pryor all the more savory. Recipe for a popular movie: take a series of stock situations, two gifted farceurs, and stir. Crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comedy: Big Bucks, Few Yuks | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...direction. He is also impetuous. Last November Ron surprised his parents with his sudden wedding to live-in Girlfriend Doria Palmieri, 29, a literary researcher. Four years earlier he had stunned them by dropping out of Yale to become a ballet dancer. And last month he created a stir by informing New York magazine that he would not shake hands with Jimmy Carter at the Inauguration because the President "has the morals of a snake." Said Ron: "I will never forgive the he way he called my father a racist and a warmonger," though he later regretted the outburst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Reagans Used to Going Their Own Ways | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Long lists of "all-but-certain" Cabinet members appeared daily in the nation's press, only to change with the next edition. Like Kremlinologists, Washington's mighty attempted to read vast significance into who was placed next to whom at dinners. Meese created a stir at one by sitting next to the wife of former NATO Commander Alexander Haig. But Haig, who was also present, would say nothing, and Meese kept repeating his favorite line: "Those who know aren't talking, and those who are talking don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's In? Who's Out? | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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