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Casto explains. "Other people on the team see us praying and they come up and ask about it. I've really been surprised at the people that have come of the woodwork...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Team Spirit | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...Business community." Thomas Ellick, a corporate vice president of California's Fluor Corp., who was a special assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan in 1968-71, finds that "I'm just amazed at the breadth of the people who are coming out of the woodwork for John Connally. If anyone is looking for a replacement for John Wayne as the personification of America, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: The Managers' Favorite Candidate | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...very phrase recognizes the end of a tradition. Its main definer, if not exactly its inventor (it is one of those phrases that crept out of the woodwork in the art world in the middle '70s and attached itself to buildings), is the English architecture critic Charles Jencks. In his latest book, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), Jencks complains that "any building with funny kinks in it, or sensuous imagery" has come to be labeled Post-Modern, and suggests that the term should be restricted to hybrid, "impure" buildings that are designed around historical memory, local context, metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...collaborating with the Nazis. Rattled, Francis falls in love with the teen-age babysitter. Seeking psychiatric help, he is detained by police who think he is the one who has been making threatening phone calls to the doctor. Francis eventually winds up in the cellar of his house doing woodwork as therapy. Cheever paints a scene of dusk falling over the suburb of Shady Hill and concludes: "Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inescapable Conclusions | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...When buying houses, the elite pays large sums, but is very particular. Observes David Kosta, a broker at Swanson Associates, realtors in Winchester, Mass.: "Single-income families want the most modern homes, with everything showy. The double-income couple likes older houses with character. They want the original woodwork and even the old-fashioned plumbing fixtures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's New Elite | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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