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Kathy Vigna, at first glance, does not look like a high-caliber tennis player. She is tall and lanky, but above all very thin, as if she could be bent in half with litle effort...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Netwomen Roll On | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

...candidate strode genially from table to table, hands outstretched, making fingertip contact with smiling ladies at a luncheon in Manchester, N.H. An elderly woman grabbed him by the sleeve and yanked him to her side. "There are too many foreigners buying up our land," she complained. He bent down next to her chair. "Aw, come on," he chided, "don't look at it as a zero- sum game. We want people to invest in America." She listened sullenly as he tried to explain his vision of an unfettered free market. "Well, you think about it," she interrupted, shaking her finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Jack Kemp:The Quarterback Of Supply Side | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...COST of millions, elevator companies are hell-bent on undertaking the most heinous practical joke ever. Combing the world's fraternity alumni lists and fast-food restaurants for the most unpleasant people in existence, the elevator companies hire these monoliths to populate the elevators of American cities. Bonuses are awarded for employees who are able to shake their bodies and shout things like, "OH NO! IT'S SNAPPED! WE'RE GONNA FALL! AHHHHH...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Days of Marble Steps | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior. Having kidnaped Nathan Jr. from the original kidnapers, Evelle wanders into a store and, just prior to robbing the place, buys balloons for the child. "These blow up into funny shapes?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Soviet Union may have ushered in its era of openness, but Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities seem bent on proving that it is not contagious. In Prague five leaders of the independent cultural organization known as the Jazz Section were convicted last week of illegally continuing to distribute music, newsletters and art books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: An End to All That Jazz | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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