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...BLUE TIDE washed over the electoral map last Tuesday night, it was hard not to believe that powerful forces were at work. Until Minnesota at last logged in for its favorite son Walter F. Mondale, the tiny District of Columbia was the only blemish on the Reagan carpet. In the television booths and living rooms, people talked of "landslides" and "mandates...
...would not, from a wide perspective, be so useful as my "tagging" along, smoothing the corners and dealing with many details, small but necessary, which in my absence he has to tackle himself with consequent loss of patience and temper! . . . I am fortunate in having just enough humor to tide me over the worst situations and enough love of nature to find beauty and delight in the most unexpected places. And there are so many other things-people and books, music and pictures and, above all else, my own children and the fascination of watching them grow and develop into...
...unconventional expressionist painter who specialized in representational but psychologically revealing portraits (including an occasional TIME cover: Feminist Kate Millett, 1970, Franklin Roosevelt, 1982) of cancer; in New York City. Neel starved during the Depression but eventually partook of the New Deal's WPA assistance. Long submerged in the tide of abstract expressionism, she was rediscovered in the late 1960s, and following a 1974 retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum had numerous one-woman and group shows...
Last year the nation's schools were hit by a devastating report from U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell calling for a spectrum of reforms to turn what was described as education's "tide of mediocrity." Now America's 3,300 universities and colleges are getting their turn under fire. The National Institute of Education, Bell's research arm, has issued a 99-page sequel every bit as rough as the blast leveled at the schools...
...guys." Blanchard has run matches around the state for more than 20 years. "We're selling entertainment and excitement," he says, gesticulating with large, powerful hands. In fact, wrestling's heroes and villains are the same as those in the real world, ebbing and flowing with the tide of world events. "We've seen Iranians after the hostage crisis, Russians, Germans and Mexicans with headdresses," says Blanchard. He mentions current Texas favorites: "Tully the Kid," "Wahoo" McDaniel, "Abdullah the Butcher," a gallery of rogues conjured from professional wrestling's fevered imagination. A fusion of morality play...