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Washington is pondering these portents for the next phase of the Reagan presidency. "Reagan is an agent of change," insists Congressman Barber Conable of New York. "But he does not much like tinkering with the moving parts." Indeed, without that hard core of aides and Cabinet officers who surround him, Reagan would be helpless. But he must know that, because the Meeses and Bakers and Deavers and Stockmans and Gergens and Regans and Weinbergers are in place and in tune. The structure and function of this group are the bane of scholars who wrote that such personal Government would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lights, Camera, Decisive Action | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...first time and model them for Gilles, and though it is the opposite of physical flesh-baring, it causes a glee symbolic of the liberation they are going through, and it means just as much as does their new found delight in the cliffs and beaches that surround their home...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Postage Due | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...town is saved not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Battle over the Red Lady | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

There are 11,021 citizens in Greene County, Ala., and 78% of them are black. They mainly work the soybean and cotton fields that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Power in Greene County | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Almost every technical element of The Hostage is relentlessly straightforward, from Jon Monderer's unobtrusive lighting design to Bundy's simple blocking. Chris Clemenson's set, while extremely well-crafted, poses a major problem for the show. High stacks of appropriately beat-up furniture and clutter surround a vast, empty space, thus forcing almost all action center-stage. When actors deliver their lines from near the bed that stands upstage they are sometimes inaudible and seem miles away, "swallowed up" by that infamous monster, the Loeb Mainstage...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Celtic Twilight | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

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