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...Barbara Walters' skills is her apologetic whammy number. Her classic use of this tactic was with the Jimmy Carters, insisting that she felt just too embarrassed even to bring up her next question, until Carter, to put her at ease, begged her to go ahead, and-wham!-found himself obliged to discuss whether he and Rosalynn slept in single beds or a double bed in the White House. Walters can talk sense with Sadat, but at other times can ask the most banal of fan magazine questions: "What was your biggest thrill?" Her best performances must occur offscreen, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Interviews, Soft or Savage | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

There may exist somewhere in this country those hardy viewers who, with pads, pencils, reference works and receptive cerebrums, actually catalogued policy nuances and body language and advanced their state of decision. But the fear is that most people were merely titillated by all the wham, zonk and gurgle that surrounded the endless evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Wham, Zonk and Gurgle | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...looked like the Roaring Seventies in downtown Chicago: squealing tires, wailing police sirens, a battered sedan careening through crowds to wham, bang, crash its way through a shattering plate-glass window of the city's Richard J. Daley civic center. Then cried a voice: "That's a take!" Saturday Night Live Stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, for whom the car was crashed by stuntmen, are filming The Blues Brothers, a story about two off-key crooners out to save the mortgage on the orphanage in which they grew up. The movie calls for SWAT teams, National Guardsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Wheel Wham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...started grabbing for any kind of fluid I could get. Unfortunately, I ended up with orange juice. One sip and wham! Within a few seconds I had severe stomach cramps, a tremendous stitch from out of nowhere. I haven't had a cramp like that in years...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: The 27th Mile | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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