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...gripped the podium tightly, his features uncustomarily taut. He was forceful and self-assured. Yet his knowledge of the specifics of government did not seem markedly superior to Carter's. Carter would seem to have greater potential but be a greater risk. Ford would seem to be safer but less exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: When Their Power Failed | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...flashes sometimes came as the cameras cut away from the candidate who was speaking to focus on the other's reaction. In the first debate, a grim Nixon, his features taut, avoided looking at his adversary, and his eyes darted warily about the studio. As Nixon spoke, a seemingly relaxed Kennedy looked directly at the nervous Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Re-Viewing the '60 Debates | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says, "I'd rather play a bad guy than a hero-it would be more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "He is brushed with star quality-it is almost tangible as he races through a factory or strides down a street. In appearance, there is about this taut, intense, self-sufficient man an anthracite hardness. His nose is bony and defined with a hook that is faintly fierce. His mouth, unlike Jimmy Carter's, does not rest in a smile. Relaxed, it is the mouth of a tennis player who is psyched up and poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Brown: Test By Rorschach | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...time Berlinguer had finished, the rally had quieted down and there were no further incidents. But the heated exchange with Rossi and the close brush with a real disturbance had shown how taut Italian political nerves are these days-and how far the Communists' appeal for unity among the parties has to go before it becomes a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Campaigning with the Party Boss | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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