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...nicer to the girls," teases Kevin Cooper after Ratliff has left Yasenak's office. Cooper, 18, enlisted in mid-March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Missionary | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...Nicer? Oh, I probably am," concedes the sergeant. "But I'm not missioned to get a lot of women, so I don't go out of my way to get them." Yet his wife Linda swears that he eyes women on the street only to reckon their Army qualifications: a passing teen-ager looks to be about 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lbs.-a tad too chunky. "Guys, in essence, can be little butterballs," says Yasenak, who is perfectly lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Missionary | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...friends tell stories of some remarkably decent gesture. Yet she is also capable of casual rudeness. Hamill describes her as "nicer these days. But for a while she abused weak targets. She had 19 secretaries come and go." She still likes to feed herself out of serving bowls, using serving utensils, apparently without a thought for the hygiene of the other people in the room. For all her years of searching, she does not present a consistent image of herself: she insists that she is shy, lazy and "made for a mountaintop," but explains her frenzied schedule by saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...American goalie, who almost single-handedly defeated the Eagles, 3-1, in the Beanpot championship game two years ago. So when the Eagles finally beat Daskalakis for the first time in five tries earlier this year, it was nice. To beat him in the Garden would be nicer...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The First-Round Final | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...make her own decisions, to leave Snider--but in his eyes there is a feverish, ashamed glint that hides the familiar fantasies: Nicholas's difference is that he sees her as a Madonna instead of a whore. When she's with Aram she dresses better and drives a nicer car--but she's still an image that is only shattered when Snider destroys them both in a horribly protracted fit of self-annihilation...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

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