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...creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus ... 'If tha'll just wipe off the fly that's on my snout, Colonel,' I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Marcus Welby of the Barnyard | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...other tart-tongued TV critics -and redeems him hi the eyes of many industry honchos. "He wants TV to be better," says M.T.M. President Grant Tinker (Hill Street Blues, WKRP in Cincinnati). Explains Shales: "People who respect TV are the ones I respect. It's the ones who wipe their feet on it whom I probably write nasty things about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

There was only one reason a Dean should write to me. I out the envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...

Author: By Carol G. Becker, | Title: Growing Up Innocent in a Quiet Age | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

...against the Syrians in Lebanon. The Syrian choppers were downed within hours of that meeting. In a combative statement the same evening, Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened more of the same. Said he: "We will not tolerate a Syrian takeover in Lebanon, and we will not let the Syrians wipe out the Christians there. There are grounds to assume that we will not be content with this action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Playing with Fire | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Syrian threat to Lebanese Christians: It is a very serious threat, and we are not going to acquiesce in any attempt to wipe out the Christian minority, either in the north or in the south. If, for instance, the Syrians continued with their bombardment of open cities, this would, of course, be an attempt to obliterate [the Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assad Is Not a Fool' | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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