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...sleeping. He gets up early, as he always has. Up, up to shower, to shave, to reach for a fresh shirt and a necktie, always a necktie. Then he pads down the stairs of his 15-room, $1 million stone-and-red-wood mansion to make his own breakfast: toast and coffee. His housekeeper is not awake yet, but the Secret Service men are, ready to accompany him on his two-mile walk around Saddle River, a wealthy enclave in northeastern New Jersey. There will be guards near Nixon for the rest of his life, but he professes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixon: Never Look Back | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...blow-job as a metaphoric image of mankind's embrace of the nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: A Working Man's Fellini | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...final resort, down to a ridiculously low figure. All this is done to raise the participation rate--the percentage of seniors who contribute, not necessarily the absolute amount collected. This year's goal is 84 percent; and the House with the highest rate will receive a free champagne toast...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Run for Your Money | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...Deal liberalism or to embrace the cynical neo-conservative backlash. Hart is, quite simply, too intelligent to embrace the well-meaning but unrealistic proposals of Mondale and McGovern. But, unlike Glenn, he does not believe that the Democrats should try to regain the White House by becoming milk toast Republicans. We also support Hart because he is now the only man who can send Reagan back to his ranch for good...

Author: By Amy E. Pressman, | Title: Gary Hart | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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