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Despite the clergy's opposition, Frank won the nomination by a slim margin of 4,499 votes. More than half of his support came from the richer and less Catholic eastern end of the district. Said Frank: "I sometimes felt as though I was wrestling a tag team, with different people coming into the ring against me." Winning the district's Democratic nomination is usually tantamount to election. Moreover, Frank's Republican opponent is little known: retired Army Dentist Richard Jones, 45, a conservative from the town of Harvard, who opposes gun control and federal funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The House: Matters of Morality | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

WHEN COMMERCIALS for Humanoids from the Deep splashed across television screens last spring--with scaly black creatures clawing at curvaceous blondes in bikinis, with that corker of a tag line, "Not for killing. For mating..."--movie monsters made a leap from the resignedly platonic to the unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...there are some construction troubles all the MBTA negotiations in the world can't remedy. Inflation has sent the project's costs soaring: the original $300 million price tag has doubled to more than $600 million...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Red Line: Will the MBTA's Troubles Never Cease? | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

WHEN COMMERCIALS for Humanoids from the Deep splashed across television screens last spring--with scaly black creatures clawing at curvaceous blondes in bikinis, with that corker of a tag line, "Not for killing. For mating..."--movie monsters made a leap from the resignedly platonic to the unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...there are some construction troubles all the MBTA negotiations in the world can't remedy. Inflation has sent the project's costs soaring: the original $300 million price tag has doubled to more than $600 million...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Red Line: Will the MBTA's Troubles Never Cease? | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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