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Eddie is also a master at the tricky art of tapering. True to his stress on individuality. Eddie tapers each swimmer differently, pulling some out of the water completely and only moderately reducing the yardage and intensity for others. "I don't know how to taper at all," Eddie jokes...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

Judging the temper of a President is tricky business. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara grew weary and disillusioned over the Viet Nam War. He brooded about resigning, then began to mention it to friends. Lyndon Johnson, who had called McNamara his right arm, wanted to listen to none of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The High Art of Threatening | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

What made BartÓk's music so unusual, so unsettling? Other composers-Stravinsky, Prokofiev -were rhythmically tricky; still others-Schoenberg, Webern-were even less conventionally melodic. With BartÓk the difference lay in his rejection of the German musical models that had long been dominant. Visiting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bart | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

To use art as evidence for arguments about the real world is a tricky business because artists are supreme individuals as well as supreme liars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great Black and White Secret | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Congress has repeatedly given away its powers to importunate Presidents, then tried to snatch them back. In the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, it told Johnson he could take any action he chose in Southeast Asia; in the War Powers Act of 1973, it told Nixon that he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Reform the System | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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