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In contrast to Christmas seasons past, the spirit of "give a gift, any gift" has wilted. This year the emphasis is on what the poet Dylan Thomas, in A Child's Christmas in Wales, called "the useful presents." Electric blankets, at retail prices of anywhere from $49.50 to $185...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Retailing's Ho-Hum Holiday | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Holmes and Foreman have one other thing in common: just as Foreman wilted after seven rounds against Ali, Holmes has wilted in his longer battles. When Holmes won the title from Norton in 1978 he carried the opening eight rounds--and then collapsed to lose the remaining seven, barely eeking...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: 'From Louisville, Kentucky, at 217 lbs., the Three-Time...' | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

Chairman Hua says that China will soon begin to demonstrate "the superiority of socialism," but at the moment it is all too easy to see the inefficiency, the mediocrity produced by lack of competition, and the sluggishness of the bureaucracy. The national travel service is both rigid and expensive: it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Rise of a Model Bureaucrat | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Being a television floor correspondent is physically taxing. Bradley and many of his colleagues thought of this somewhat resentfully as they wilted in the steamy crush of delegates. Late one evening, he gazed into the bleachers and spotted a magazine reporter asleep in her seat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Tale of Two Conventions | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

Unlike Oliver and Jenny Barrett, who were nearly perfect, Segal has wilted under Mammon's gaze and added Oliver's Story to the screenplay-novel genre. And now comes Man, Woman and Child, the kind of novel a writer produces only thrice in a lifetime, a literary tortilla, a hardcover...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Erich's Story--Again | 6/4/1980 | See Source »

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