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...that had long separated singer and songwriter; now a man could perform his own compositions and do it with amazing sass. He could do wrong too, and here again Berry was a pioneer. Through decades of one-night stands, too much monkey business and a few command performances in stir, he fixed the image of the rock artist as outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Berry: Still Reelin', Still Rockin' | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...national attention since John Irving finally arrived with The World According to Garp in 1978. McInerney made it faster, with less talent, by being in the right place at the right time. He also had a personal life that ran parallel to his fiction. Bright Lights caused a small stir by caricaturing a magazine that resembled the author's former employer, The New Yorker. The novel's more capitalizing feature was that its hero and his pals were regulars at Odeon and other lower- Manhattan spots that were trendy at the time. The book was witty and well paced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did A Dead Man Tell No Tales? | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...days, a swizzle stick was aimed at a cherry or an olive and logically used to stir a gin and tonic. But in trendy bars today, as the price of some drinks hovers around five bucks, plastic swizzlers are almost as elaborate as the frozen daiquiris and blue margaritas they garnish. In Los Angeles, New York and Miami, the new adornments come shaped as inch-wide blue whales, 4-in.-long marlins or, even better, mermaids, pink elephants, giraffes, lizards and dinosaurs -- all to be fondled, chewed and traded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Swizzle Dazzlers | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...national sense of unfulfilled expectations." At issue was the government's handling of the economy. Inflation, which was running in the single digits two years ago, is now nearly 14%. Alfonsin's determination to make regular interest payments on Argentina's $54 billion foreign debt also continues to stir controversy. Addressing a business group late in the week, he cautioned, "We have lost the elections, but the tree has not fallen. No one should try to take wood before its time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Surprise at the Ballot Box | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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