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...jumble that only someone minutely familiar with his career can grasp what is going on. Mixing facts and falsehood, he'll jump from the topic of Watergate to his first grammar school debate (he argued that girls were no good and won). What's more, he constantly interrupts his stream of jibberish, by raising his arms and launching into political rhetoric, by strewing papers around the room and slipping on them, or by going into prayer...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Lacking Any Honor | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

...case of Bill Barich, a surrogate voyager justly praised for his first book, Laughing in the Hills, the trip is likely to be no farther than is necessary to get to the nearest horse track or trout stream. It is true that in one instance in this collection of ten essays, the nearest track is in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, England, and in another it is in Florence, Italy. Nevertheless, the reader still capable of shame must feel guilty of a stunning level of shiftlessness: he is letting another man win his bets for him (Barich admits to occasional losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyager | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...fatal shot hit the archduke in the jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sarajevo Triggered a War | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...transatlantic flight; in Paris. In 1930 Bellonte and Pilot Dieu-donne Costes reversed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 course in their crimson Bre-guet sesquiplane Question Mark. Taking off from Le Bourget airfield, they landed 37 hr. 18 min. and 3,600 miles later at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Each night at 10:45, crowds stream out of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater limp and disheveled, gasping for breath and wiping their eyes. Much as they may appear to be fleeing tear gas or a smoke bomb, these people are in fact the happy victims of a very different kind of explosion. They have just spent more than two hours howling and guffawing at Noises Off, the farce by Britain's Michael Frayn that is the comedy hit of the season. The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewing a Farce from Behind | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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