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cut back on its IDA contributions. If credit-worthy beneficiaries like India (which now gets one-third of the IDA'S largesse) and China were forced to borrow at the bank's subsidized interest rates, according to the report, the poorer countries could receive higher levels of aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Shot | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

When the Democratic candidates were asked at Hanover if Ronald Reagan had done anything worthwhile in three years, there was silence except for a flip answer from Mondale: "I think one of the fine things they did was to get rid of James Watt." That silence was disingenuous, since Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Politics as Gong Show | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

This past summer, I acknowledged my new home at Currier House by laying upon my doorpost for the first time in my life a small wooden case containing inscribed parchment--a mezuza. For religious Jews, this is a practice dictated by written law. For others, it is a symbolic act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bigotry | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

It started as a bitter struggle between Gordon Getty, amateur composer and opera singer, and the defiant managers running Getty Oil, the cornerstone of the empire built by the late Jean Paul Getty. As the battle developed, both sides resorted to intrigue and duplicity worthy of the Medicis. But late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texaco and Getty Oil: History's Biggest Takeover? | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Heart Like a Wheel. This B-movie biography of Shirley Muldowney, first woman to become a national hot-rod champion, boasts crisp, compassionate direction by Jonathan Kaplan and an Oscar-worthy performance from Bonnie Bedelia.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST OF 1983: Cinema | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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