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Perhaps the strongest opinions, fair or unfair, about journalism are held by people who have been thrust into the news by their jobs or by extraordinary circumstances. Some of their views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Your Story, but My Life | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...telephone bills after divestiture will depend on whether the user is an individual or a business, how many local and longdistance calls are made, over what distance and for how long. The entire philosophical underpinning of pricing phone services is changing, a departure much in line with the national thrust toward deregulation in many other fields. In essence, Americans are going to begin paying more and more of the full and true cost of phone services they use. At the same time, they will not pay as much for those they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Bryce Harlow, the very wise aide who served Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford, developed a theory that the mettle of a President and his Administration is never really taken until there is a failure, whether from within the Government or thrust on them from the outside. How these people shed their jealousies and fears, how clearly they see ahead, how they come together and embrace the national interest instead of their own ends is the true measure of a President and his aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Test of True Leadership | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...authority over its own territory, some of which has been under the control of rebellious Kurdish nationalists, as well as seizing strategic chunks of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Tehran government claimed last week that its forces had captured 270 sq. mi. of Iraqi territory in the bloody week-old thrust, including several mountain strongholds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Nowhere to Hide | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...loud and clear, helped by some strong actors and a director who sticks cautiously to a few basic note--squalor, loneliness, weired twistings of communication, and a creeping, gradually dominating mistrust. Cutler lets the cast carry Shepard's heavy messages, but he doesn't add much dramatic shape or thrust. Too ofen, the dialogue sags unbearably under the weight of its pregnant pauses; at other times, mostly in Act One, the actors lose track of their speeches meaning and say everything with the same flat air of significance...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Twisted but Truthful | 10/27/1983 | See Source »

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