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Lots goes on here in the town of Night-soap, most every night of the week. Mondays Blake Carrington comes to visit, with his young wife, his tramp daughter, his homosexual son and a billion dollars' worth of Colorado oil contracts; Blake is trying to build a Dynasty. Tuesdays we see the Weldons,from up on Flamingo Road; they got more problems, and hormones, than an alligator has teeth. Thursdays we play bridge with the young marrieds from Knots Landing; most of the time, though, they want to play other indoor games. Fridays we reserve for our oldest friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Season of the Nightsoaps | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

With the morning mists come the legends, the old bugle calls, the tramp of sure feet, voices raised in liberty's arguments. Soon enough Reagan will be down on the battlefield with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and his days will be ordered by the cables from Moscow and the Middle East. But, for the moment, he lives in a special glory that is granted to all new Presidents as they wait on Pennsylvania Avenue for the day when they can enter the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Moment of Special Glory | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...baby. Gray blossomed in the role, bringing it passion, grandeur and a touch of raunch. Through her soft, melodious voice, her carriage and her steely blue eyes, she suggested Sue Ellen's lifetime of good breeding and rude awakening, the lady whom J.R. forced to become a tramp. Says Gray: "I love the great broads of the world. I love Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. I love crying and letting the mascara run. I keep saying to the scriptwriters, 'Whatever you do, don't make her nice!' I've read the first four scripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...Will Shakespeare already stands there, although the Bard's appearance and dignity have been besmirched by pigeons, air pollution and porno spreading through a once tony neighborhood that used to be home to Painters William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. But installation of the statue of the Little Tramp, who died at 88 in 1977, has been stalled by a standoff between the Greater London Council, which wants to rehabilitate the square speedily, and the more snail-paced local Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...making cynics of older ones. What would happen if most of the class decided to leave the room during a prayer? If several children want to lead prayers in different religions, how does the teacher decide which should lead the class? If several students lead prayers, will their poers tramp in and out of the room as each faith gets its time in class? Recognizing these and similar problems, the Cambridge school superintendent has rightly decided to delay implementing the law until the courts pass on its constitutionality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughtless Prayer | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

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