Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making movies, but no one paid much attention. (Remember Malone? Critical Condition?) Reynolds occupied himself as director at his dinner theater in Jupiter, Fla., and as executive producer of the TV game show Win, Lose or Draw. Pryor retreated into the shadows of his fading celebrity. Both stars made bigger news appearing with Johnny Carson or Barbara Walters to refute stories that they were ill with AIDS. Ringwald switched mentors, leaving John Hughes, who had made her a star with Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, for Warren Beatty. It didn't work. Their film, The Pick-Up Artist...
Founded in 1958 mainly to provide insurance for retirees, AARP is now the nation's largest special-interest group. "Join the Association that's bigger than most countries," boasted a recent magazine ad. This elderly behemoth, nearly twice the size of the AFL-CIO, continues to grow by about 8,000 new dues payers a day. One out of nine Americans belongs, paying a $5 annual fee. AARP offers drug and travel discounts, runs the nation's largest group-health- insura nce program and a credit union. In addition, its savvy media operation includes Modern Maturity, the nation's third...
...Arthur Christ Agnos was elected the 37th mayor of San Francisco, a violent storm unexpectedly swept across the city, dumping hail, downing power lines, flooding streets. For a brief time chaos reigned. But shortly after the polls closed in last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield, Mass., in 1966, Agnos...
...some 10,000 items, ranging from $10 wooden stairway spindles to the interior of an art-deco jewelry store for $135,000, complete with display cases and teller's cage. There are hundreds of marble fireplace mantels, pedestal sinks, lighting fixtures, wrought-iron gates and granite gargoyles. There are bigger chunks of history: a 5-ft.-tall, $3,500 brass-and-crystal chandelier found in a crate in Gimbel Bros.' basement, and a 9-ft.-high, 77-ft.-wide chestnut-paneled music room from a turn-of-the-century house in Southampton, N.Y. Cost: $30,000. Antique porcelain bathtubs, which...
...treaty that Reagan and Gorbachev are to sign this week cannot exist in a vacuum for very long. While the U.S. has succeeded in separating INF from the bigger issues of START and SDI, the success could prove temporary and illusory. What the experts, Soviet and American alike, call "conceptual" linkage remains a fact of life. Unless the SS-25 and other ICBMs are dealt with in a strategic agreement sometime soon, they will eventually nullify the good news being celebrated this week in Washington and around the world...