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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand: Willy was a salesman . . . ((A salesman)) don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...molecule of the neurotic in his body. He liked to tell a slightly peculiar story about a boy who on Christmas morning finds a pile of manure in his room and says brightly, "I just know there's a pony in here somewhere." He was coated with Teflon: blame never attached itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Who's in Charge? | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Despite the growing tempest, Mecham continues to blame a hostile press and left-wing radicals for most of his problems. Few expect him to return to selling cars without a fight. "He will quit the day hell freezes over," says Udall. Adds Jane Hull: "There will be fistfights in the street." Or more likely, a second volume of Mecham jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evan Mecham, Please Go Home | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...perhaps the blame lies more in Hello Again's genre than in the acting or the script. Yuppies are just not very funny people, and this holds true even for the resurrected ones...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Grave Mistake | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...written appears to bend over backwards to assign blame to the Reagan-Administration," he said. "And it contains innuendoes unsupported by the documents we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran-Contra Committee Approves Report | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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