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...Koch would argue that he acts toward everybody equally, but as a former aide says, "Ed treats everyone the same? badly." Nor does it help matters when Koch works himself into a state and starts hurling words at his critics like "wacko" and "ideologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mayor for All Seasons | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

Lanford Wilson possesses something that any pol might envy. He controls the wacko constituency-weirdos, crazies and freaks. Fifth of July is a redo of his The Hot l Baltimore, transported to a creaky ancestral house in Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Happy Hangover | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...gone." Back in Idaho, Church has been ridiculed by one of his traditional backers. Bill Hall, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune's editorial page editor, wrote, "It's not a proud moment to have the Senate Foreign Relations chairman from Idaho trying to outdo every right-wing wacko in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Search for a Way Out | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Steady, Barker | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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