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When President Reagan delivers a speech, Thor Sevcenko notes, nobody assumes he wrote it himself...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Byzantine Mysteries Unraveled | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...cuts through Plante's dispiriting view of women. Her earthiness seems to have tickled his sensibility: "Germaine will clutch the fat at her tummy and shake it and say, 'That's alcohol.' " But there is a touch of malice in his portrait of the au thor of The Female Eunuch. When Greer rummages in her refrigerator for some thing to feed her cats, she exclaims, "Oh, darlings, you're so lucky. Here's testicle." Plante pointedly fails to specify the species from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half Light | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...David N. Thor Elma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1983 | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...Europeans became concerned that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons to defend the Continent because of a fear that Moscow would respond by attacking American cities. For some of the allies, the uncertainty grew stronger after Washington's 1963 decision to withdraw 90 intermediate-range Jupiter and Thor missiles from Europe on grounds that the weapons were obsolete. Doubts like these led Charles de Gaulle in 1966 to pull France out of NATO's military organization (although not the alliance) and organize its own nuclear retaliatory force, la force defrappe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yankee, Don't Go Home | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., it is another wrap in the filming of The World According to Garp. But for John Irving, au thor of the 1978 bestseller, and for Robin Williams, the movie's star, the working day has two sweaty hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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