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...Hospitals are at the brink of disaster," William Wane, president of Bon Secours Hospital, said at the rally. "Enough is enough, we're tired of being a whipping post for the financial ills of our society," he said...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Duke's Health Plan Contested | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

...when you consider that 1987 has become the year of the Great Debate Spate. The seven Democratic contenders have already traded mild jabs on PBS and C-Span. Two more Democratic events are scheduled for September. On the Republican side, Moderator William Buckley will toss out the first bon mot on Oct. 28, when all six G.O.P. contenders, including an initially reluctant Vice President George Bush, appear on Firing Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debate Spate | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Exposure on MTV can still have substantial impact. The success of such currently hot groups as Bon Jovi and Poison is largely traceable to the saturation airplay given their videos on MTV. One popular band, Journey, last year opted not to produce a video to go with its new album. But when sales lagged, the group released one belatedly, and business promptly picked up. "There's no doubt that its impact has leveled off," says Gil Friesen, president of A&M Records. "But if MTV weren't to survive, someone else would come along and reinvent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: MTV Faces a Mid-Life Crisis | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...Five bucks baby." Adam was gloating; she's got to be fat, only fat girls call fourth grade lovers, only lonely, sweaty, sexually confused consumers of Harlequins, bon bons, and small teddy-bears and poodles track down, call up, and invite up the fourth grade boy from next door. It was a certainty that floated in our rental car with malignant intensity, putting Dave on the defensive and the speedometer at 55. Suddenly Dave wasn't in a hurry to get there...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Fourth Grade Blue | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Taking the Town | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

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