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While the campaign is supposed to run for three years, the early returns have not been especially positive. Reflecting the feeling of many Aussies, a Sydney Morning Herald columnist groaned that the "half-witted" promotion seemed "calculated to appeal to a backward rural electorate in India." Worse still, critics quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Up Down Under | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

> Joseph A. Califano Jr., the sharp-witted, liberal and independent-minded Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. His replacement, subject to Senate confirmation: Patricia Harris, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and first black woman in the Cabinet. Her successor at HUD has not been announced.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Despite the fall from his lofty pedestal, he is still the same Larry Brown-quick-witted with his native Norwood tongue, and quietly confident in himself and his team.

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

When The Muppet Show began, Miss Piggy was a nobody, a mere member of the porker chorus. In less than three years, by a dazzling combination of talent, beauty and physical violence?when batting her eyelashes doesn't bring surrender, she lashes out with a karate chop?she has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, which heads the double bill, is a broad satire of the Antigone vein of Greek tragedy. There are only three characters: Dynamane, a recently widowed noblewoman who has decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: God and Ham at Winthrop | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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