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...sound system, with an officer in camouflage fatigues standing at attention nearby, Mobutu shows no signs of fearing the turmoil that threatens to engulf him. "I have rendered my country and people an enormous service," he says, beckoning to a servant who rushes up with an iced Baccarat tumbler of Coca-Cola. "They owe me everything." Then why not hold elections? "I plan to. I would win them." Then he leans back in his gold thronelike chair, staring into the distant jungle. "If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Fire in His Wake: MOBUTU SESE SEKO | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...side, her father Ivan becomes friends with a terminally ill homosexual who is manning an AIDS hotline. Amanda's status as a potential gymnastic champion is more than a gimmick; it provides a standard by which her physical deterioration and emotional growth are measured. The little tumbler is a reminder that when A.E. Housman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young," he did not mean this young. At Risk is a one-hankie book and could be a two-hankie movie. Not to worry. No , one ever got sick from crying. Tears, in fact, make good medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journals of The Plague Years | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...murder-mystery thriller is a theatrically endangered species. Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth. Deathtrap is a congenial successor-literate, amusing, booby-trapped with scarifying surprises, a brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scalp Tingler | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Secret Service agents are coming to check it out for Jerry Ford's visit. He plans to stay there when he returns to vote on Election Day. In the hotel coffee shop, a visitor can buy a religious record or a book of Bible stories-or a tumbler emblazoned with Ford's image. Route 131, which cuts through downtown, was christened the Gerald R. Ford Freeway in 1975, and the President's name also adorns the gym at the Grand Rapids Community College. Despite the uproar over Ford's alleged campaign fund manipulations, his supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: GRAND RAPIDS AS CHARACTER WITNESS | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...began to drink alone in the closing weeks. Despondent and withdrawn, she was embarrassed one noon when surprised by kitchen help as she was filling a tumbler with bourbon. She would spend long hours in her pale yellow bedroom, often returning her luncheon tray with the food untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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