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...bulge with material on Reagan. The Soviets know everything from the size of his biceps to the way he conducts himself at closed-door meetings. By contrast, U.S. intelligence analysts do not even know whether Andropov drinks vodka. The Soviet leader at this point is little more than a neat, dark blue suit filled with cold air. But we have made a start in putting some flesh and blood under the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Getting to Know Andropov | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Rupert Pupkin is neat; his three-piece suit is so sharply pressed you could cut your hand on a crease. Rupert Pupkin is agreeable; encountering the boyish befuddlement with which he sometimes camouflages his essentially persistent, not to say obsessive, nature, frosty receptionists melt down to disarmed motherliness-even though he never has an appointment. Rupert Pupkin is helpful; he will give you his latest and best joke, run errands for you, even come bravely to your rescue in a life-threatening situation. In short, Rupert Pupkin is a national menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond the Fringe of Fandom | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Tommy's Lunch hit the quarter-century mark yesterday, which means that Harvard procrastinators have been playing pinball and drinking coffee under its two neat white "No Loitering" signs since 1958. The signs were there when Thomas Stefanian bought the place, but almost everything else has changed...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: At Tommy's, A Quiet 25th Anniversary | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...Rubia's proposal was grated with a certain amount of 'Gee. that's really neat." George W. Brandenburg, associate director of Harvard's High Energy Physics Laboratory, said yesterday. "It was an outlandish idea, though you had to admit it was worth...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Physicist Set To Return After Breakthrough | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...neat and snug. Behind the chair's back leg on your right is a cable wrapped in gray tape. It will sluice the electrical current to three other wires: two going to each of your feet, and the third to the cone on top of your head. The room is very quiet. During your brief walk here, you looked over your shoulder and saw early morning light creeping over the Berkshire Hills. Then into this silent tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: An Eye for an Eye | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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