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...there are many, many women who are far more eligible than I." Maybe so, but GQ's readers do not agree. Of all the women featured, Cuomo has so far elicited the most mail response. Perhaps it is not so surprising, since sex appeal seems to be a family trait. Five months ago, Playgirl picked her dad as one of the ten sexiest men in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1986 | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Burgin could be persuasive, however, he could also be mercurial, a trait that the Examiner poked fun at in another TV ad. As an unsmiling Burgin enters the newsroom, staffers cower behind bookshelves and scatter in fear. "David's got a reputation as sort of a tough guy," narrates Hearst. "But I think that's blown way out of proportion." Still, Burgin was difficult. He disappeared from the office for long stretches, blew up suddenly at staffers, - and once, in a fit of pique, skipped a planned meeting with company brass in New York. Hearst "kept saying I was capricious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: In His Grandfather's Footsteps | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with a "trace of shyness." The great intimidator confessed to being "afraid of the dark," as well as of "dogs, horses, strangers." He did not lack that rarest trait of the possessed, a sense of humor. He loved Dickens. He translated Mark Twain. When the mood was upon him, possibly after a few absinthes, he strummed his guitar while standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsession Strindberg: a Biographyby Michael Meyer | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...syndrome is not a personality trait, not a row of haggard faces bent over Cabot Library tables that readily double as formica pillows. It is, experts say, a combination of medical school admission policies and pressures, embedded in certain beliefs among the medical community at large...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: What Makes a Premed | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...syndrome is not a personality trait, not a row of haggard faces bent over Cabot Library tables that readily double as formica pillows. It is, experts say, a combination of medical school admission policies and pressures, embedded in certain beliefs among the medical community at large...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: What Makes a Premed | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

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