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...rich, Harriman almost never carried any cash. Left stuck with the tab, young Foreign Service officers began calling Harriman "the world's richest cheapskate." That was perhaps the mildest of the many epithets he had to endure. At various times he was dubbed a playboy by the press, a traitor to his class by Wall Street and a Communist sympathizer by the Republican right. In history's verdict, he will be better remembered as a statesman who served his country with distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Establishment's Envoy William Averell Harriman: 1891-1986 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...members of the party carry a heavier symbolic weight. Bishop (Lance Henriksen), an android who proves himself a distinct improvement over the traitor robot of the first film. Bishop offers a prejudice Ripley has to overcome and, in the end, some surprising heroics for the audience to cheer. The other outsider is a different case. Burke (Paul Reiser) is a junior executive in "the company," the monopoly that has all of space to profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...smooth, but the affairs of confessed Soviet Agent Svetlana Ogorodnikova have proved particularly bumpy. Over the past two weeks, Ogorodnikova has disrupted the Los Angeles espionage trial of her former paramour, ex-FBI Agent Richard Miller, with sobbing assertions of his and her innocence. "Richard is not a traitor of his country," she told the judge in chambers, and "I am not Russian spy." Instead, she portrayed herself as a boozy, lovelorn emigre who rebounded to Miller after she was jilted by his colleague, former FBI Counterintelligence Agent John Hunt. Hunt has denied having any romantic involvement with Ogorodnikova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Case of the Lovelorn Spy | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration's effort to provide the guerrillas with $100 million in U.S. funding, a stand that prompted d'Escoto / to label the Cardinal a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua a Cardinal Under Fire | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...foster mother caught him stealing from her purse. "You little thief!" she cried. Genet took that as his creed: "I answered 'Yes' to every accusation made against me, no matter how unjust . . .Yes, I had to become whatever they said I was . . . I was a coward, thief, traitor, queer, whatever they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mandarin and the Thief Simone de Beauvoir: 1908-1986; Jean Genet: 1910-1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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