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Director: Yeah, yeah. He wins, the commies gain strength, civil war, and we're in another land war in Southeast Asia. Apocalypse Again, hey? Well, I'm not all that thrilled about our "moderate alternative." She isn't exactly the "Winston Churchill of Southeast Asia" either...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Being There | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...kidvid heap. In the first of a planned series of notable children's stories narrated by well-known stars, Random House this fall released Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit, read by Meryl Streep. Despite minimal animation, the show is made irresistible by Streep's touching narration and George Winston's graceful music. (Still to come: Jack Nicholson reading Kipling's Just So Stories and Cher doing The Ugly Duckling.) A video version of The Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids is an intriguing hodgepodge of informational segments on such diverse topics as why volcanoes happen and how to blow huge soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Kidvid Cassettes for Christmas | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...along I saw these and many other precautions as part of a losing battle. "My grandfather was bald," I figured. "So shall I be bald." I tried to console myself with visions of great bald men from history: Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Alan Brinkley. But to no avail. I was just not in their league. I would just be bald. Old and bald...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: A Touch of Chrome | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Dawson is just one of several talented players providing the booters with offensive depth. After the first string had slipped around for about 20 minutes at the start of the contest, Scalise replaced his tired starters with fresh attackers Amy Winston and Deborah Lawrence...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Crimson Blanks Wildcats, 2-0 | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

...waits for the sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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