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Reagan watched him leave and said. "Well, as that great champion and great American, Winston Churchill, once said. 'He can run, but we'll find him. Now is there anything else...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Wednesday at the White House | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Another paperback bestseller, The Second Official I Hate Cats Book (Holt Rinehart Winston; $3.95), makes no pretense whatever of liking Felis. The animals pictured by Cartoonist Skip Morrow are uniformly fat and dumb-and alive-and they get a variety of comeuppances in ways that manage to be amiably humorous. The two I Hate books have 575,000 copies in print. They too have stirred a barrage of virulently pro-feline protest mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Comeuppance for Cats | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...right honorable gentleman is a liar.' It is also unparliamentary to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is lying!' It is, however, acceptable to say, 'The right honorable gentleman told a lie!' This, however, sounds equally not nice, and it was Winston Churchill who preferred a different definition. He said: 'The right honorable gentleman committed a terminological inexactitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Controllers | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband I should flavor your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband I should drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...problem, however, has not been solved. Except for a few classy pictures like Raiders, Elephant Man and Raging Bull, the best makeup is usually done for horror films that most adults never see, or would admit to seeing. "Some of my best work," complains Stan Winston (The Wiz), "has been lost on bad movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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