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After his retirement from the New York Knicks in 1975, he began pounding the New Jersey pavement pressing the flesh in hopes of gaining one of the Garden State's Senate seats. As most basketball fans and political observers know, Bradley was successful and is in the fourth year of his second career...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Bill Bradley: From Court to Senate | 12/1/1982 | See Source »

...parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma may be to him, Bernardin feels called, first and foremost, to make peace in his own parishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am Just a Symbol | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

Like many distance runners. McCarthy is slightly built with no spare flesh padding her Frame. Her small stature though has caused her several amusing moments at Harvard. "Someone came up to me freshman year and asked me if I was a 14 year genius," She laughs...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Wiley McCarthy | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...world where Harvard Law School hasn't been invented yet, and Success means Sucession. Pippin sets out to find true fulfillment, charging into War, sliding into Flesh, plotting Revolution, and finally finding the answer to his burning question smouldering in The Hearth--the simple life of the family, with a widow Catherine (Susan Power...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Holy Roman Angst | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

...word, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "is the skin of a living thought." The flesh of slang is a little weaker than usual now. Why? For several reasons. Perhaps slang follows the economy and now finds itself a bit recessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Slang Is Not a Sin | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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