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...enraptured crowd claps excitedly and hurls dollars and children onto the stage while a team of bodyguards escort Jim, Charo, and Tammy to their respective limosines. Tammy is able to swipe some of the cash off the stage and exchange it for a few hits of valium before she and her entourage are scurried away to continue their work for God somewhere in the Holy Jacuzzi of their Holy Mansion. On the way out, Barbara Walters manages to get a question through to Jim Bakker...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Oral Arguments | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...course there are the dark images of the Iranian fiasco: the President's men skulking around, with cake and Bible and guns, on ventures so goofy as to seem unhinged; the tablets of Valium that Robert McFarlane swallowed. The Iran affair destroyed Reagan's nimbus of immunity, subverted his magic. His political authority derived from the idea that Ronald Reagan believed certain simple things profoundly, with an incorruptible candor. He would bob his head, in the way he has, and smile and say, "Here I stand: I can do no other." Martin Luther washed up on the beaches of Malibu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reagan Administration... A Change in the Weather | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

However, most students say that social life comes second to academics. "They [his classmates] don't do enough to relax, that's for damn sure. They're all sick--the clean cut ones. I recommend valium for 90 percent of the school," says Arthur C Epker, a second-year student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Risky Business: What Pre-MBA's Do for Social Life | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...emerging as Americans' favorite antidote to that current cultural Grinch: stress. Nothing kinky, just a way to get out the kinks. "It's the ideal therapy for the '80s," declares Robert King, president of the Chicago-based American Massage Therapy Association. "Instead of having an extra martini or gulping Valium, people ought to consider a professional massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Massage Comes Out of the Parlor | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...three members of the commission -- Tower, former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie -- called on McFarlane last Thursday in Bethesda Naval Hospital. McFarlane has been confined there since Feb. 9, after he attempted suicide by swallowing an overdose of Valium. The session in a conference room adjoining the presidential suite was stilted: the four men know each other well, but they took pains to speak formally as investigators and witness. McFarlane addressed Tower as "Senator" and Muskie as "Mr. Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tower Of Judgment | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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