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Some believe that Americans have entirely too much freedom: all engine, no brakes, the great vehicle careering all over the road, the Lowest Common Denominator at the wheel, grinning like an idiot, hurling beer cans out the window. In many minds, freedom is a license to indulge. If the old constraints of religion and manners have given way, Americans unequipped with a set of inhibitions will begin to dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom First | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...clock them to the second, since the 2,000-shop chain promises a discount if the pie takes longer than 30 minutes to arrive. To help drive home the point, Domino's sponsored a race car that finished fifth in the Indianapolis 500, with Al Unser Jr. behind the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the Express Lane | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel-dealing Stockman calls "Politics...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Politics of Schmoozing | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Cuomo is a detail man who likes to do things himself. He polishes his elegant speeches and his clunky black shoes--and is proud of both. He reads the fine print in the bills he signs. There is no gatekeeper on his staff; he is the axis of the wheel. One ex-staffer says that Cuomo has created no real machine of government, has no grasp of management systems: "He runs a high- level mom-and-pop operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...famous as her pictures. The images she captured are memorable enough on their own: a line of flood victims in Kentucky stretched in front of a billboard braying prosperity; the German bombardment of the Kremlin by night during World War II; Mohandas Gandhi reading newspaper clippings near a spinning wheel, the primitive tool he used to forge a subcontinent's independence. Millions of people saw these photographs and others equally striking in LIFE; the big news to many was that they had been taken by a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortunate Life Margaret Bourke-White | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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