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...understand American defense, think of an extremely wealthy man who has gone to a gambling casino for a long binge, gotten hopelessly drunk, wasted a great deal of his money and awakened with a severe hangover to find that he has married a woman who is a complete stranger. The man's condition is scarcely fatal, but scarcely one to be desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing The Pentagon to Heel | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Politics seldom makes stranger bedfellows than Jesse Jackson and his campaign chairman, California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. They are Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside: a true believer with a provocative message advised by a hard- bitten political agnostic for whom election to office has become not a means but an end. While Jackson campaigns as champion of the dispossessed, the deliciously flamboyant Brown drapes himself in $1,500 Brioni suits, roars around Sacramento in a $100,000 crimson Ferrari and squires striking women half his age. This extravagant life-style is certainly not financed by his $37,105 state salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson's Alter Ego | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...seized the child and spirited her away to the reservation. Keetso and the Pittses charge that Navajo officials violated an understanding that Allyssa would be placed solely in the care of her maternal grandmother until the hearing. Instead, they say, the child was left in the home of a stranger, where she was neglected and quickly fell ill. Tribal authorities deny that such an understanding existed and contend that the baby's illness was due to a change of formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Adoption Battle over Baby K. | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Picnic opens, everybody is busily preparing for the town's annual picnic when a stranger comes to town. He's tall and handsome, and his arrival ends up disrupting one family, one friendship and two love affairs...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Out to Lunch | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...this retreat, away from the city where he desultorily practices law and enthusiastically philanders. Audrey, 51, ensconced for the season and steadily tippling vodka in the privacy of her own bedroom, feels a bit edgy over the arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When The Outrageous Is the Norm THE HOUSEGUEST | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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