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Relations between the U.S. and Venezuela are generally good, but Carter could have a trickier time of it in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's military government was angered when the U.S. unsuccessfully tried to block the sale of West German nuclear reactors to Brazil. Nor does Brazil like Carter's position on human rights, which is considerably at variance with the generals' view of how to run things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Footnote Tour | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...million U.S. taxpayers, who have four weeks to meet the April 15 filing deadline. Form 1040 is more complicated than ever, asks more seemingly unanswerable questions, and requires more aspirin and mental ability to complete. Even Form 1040A, the short version for taxpayers who do not itemize deductions, is trickier than before. Beams Harry Friedenberg, owner of H & R Tax Service in Los Angeles: "Congress in its infinite wisdom simplified the tax form so much that people are calling us and screaming 'Help!' We're delighted. We get $60 an hour for filling out short forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: On the Mark, Get Set, Calculate | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Dyspepsia and Dark Alleys | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

...Josip Broz Tito, who is 83 and ailing; a Mercedes ambulance outfitted with an emergency cardiac unit follows him wherever he goes within Yugoslavia. In the meantime, the Soviets are wooing as many of Tito's numerous would-be successors as possible. Rumania presents them with a far trickier problem. Ceauçescu is a healthy 57 and may well be around for some time. To be sure, he has his internal enemies, who resent his "personality cult," his nepotistic elevation of his wife and son to important positions and his austere economic policies. On balance, however, Ceau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: After Helsinki: Balkan Jitters | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...centrally placed conceit of Two Sisters is somewhat trickier. It is Eric's film script, The Two Sisters of Ephesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overripeness Is All | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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