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...access to the White House, no matter which party is in power. As Reagan pointed out in his speech last week, "For too long now, black Americans seem to have been written off by one party and taken for granted by another." The President's point is undoubtedly valid, but his argument is unlikely to spark a black exodus to the G.O.P. so long as the Reagan Administration's record on civil rights is suspect. Meanwhile black allegiance to the Democratic Party is so ingrained that Edwin T. Sexton, head of a black political consulting firm, gloomily advises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Not Writing Off Anyone | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

Fassbinder's own story begins in 1946, with a physician father and a mother who translated Truman Capote into German. "It was a chaotic house," he recalled in 1975. "The normal bourgeois order was not valid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...soon be holding a referendum on whether to continue funding the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Leaders of RUS have charged that University Hall is pushing for the referendum simply because RUS bothers them, because it raises issues the College doesn't want to deal with. The charge seems valid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Shenanigans | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

...true, of course. And Presley was the King, The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, and the Dead are a bunch of burned-out, boring refugees from the '60s with no redeeming value whatsoever. You can't argue with these intrinsically valid generalizations, but there's so much more to these groups. By the same token, there's so much more to Costello than the simple-minded cliches that have plagued his entire career...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...turn the economy around. What is more surprising, the latest independent polls show that most Americans are willing to give him yet another 18 months to produce results. This tolerance is based on Reagan's winning personality, a widespread belief that past policies have failed, and a valid feeling that no one is strongly pushing alternatives to the President's policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics Over Reason | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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