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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these are nothing compared with the extremes in him, in brave, dumb Captain Midlife, jogging with the kids, exhaling frost; or out on the town, red-mufflered to the eyes, a Scotch ad beaming with conventional merriment. Inside his aching, brooding head, a mess of city-dump proportions. He crouches in the mind's attic like one of those soldiers who are never told that the war is over, and reads that Michael Korda, a modern adviser on how to live, says that by the time one reaches one's 40s, all emotional and professional problems should be settled...
...already showing signs of disillusionment with the rat race of materialism. Fear of hard times may be a growing incentive to save, along with anger over America's economic weakness. One New York savings bank, Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy, but patriotic to boot...
...enough to make John Cougar Mellancamp cry "Oh Boy." If he sees the new Ford ad, he might let out "Oh Buick." Although "It's So Easy (To Buy Tercel)," it is not easy to listen to these rock and roll classics remade and then overplayed. Roll Over Buddy Holly...
...Brown students were arrested in March, 1986 by Providence police investigating an ad placed in the now-defunct Providence Eagle. In the ad, Kidd and Dana E. Smith, both of whom graduated in June of that year, offered a sexual threesome to any businessman willing...
When the two women were arrested, they said the ad was part of a prostitution ring into which Henshaw had lured them. Police had been investigating the existence of such a ring since the fall of 1985, when a student approached them and said she had been pressured into becoming a prostitute...