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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epitomized by his question about Hart's new ideas: "Where's the beef?" That line drew a big laugh when Mondale first used it in a TV debate in Atlanta Sunday night and immediately became the war cry of the former Vice President's campaign (see box). Addressing his campaign workers in Washington two nights later, Mondale asserted, "I've come back into the race because people asked the one question that counts most . . ." The question he intended to, and finally did, pose was "Who will be the best President?" But to voice...
...perform hundreds of tasks like precision welding and alignment of doors and fenders. Auto executives consulted with the gurus of manufacturing and quality: W. Edwards Deming, J.M. Juran and Philip B. Crosby, a Florida-based consultant whose 1979 book, Quality Is Free, sits on many Detroit desks (see box...
Sound tracks have become the key to orchestrating a box-office...
...came out weeks before the movie. When the film itself finally opened around the country in mid-February, the groundwork had been laid: Footloose the movie was the nation's top-grossing film for the first three weeks of its release and has earned $38 million at the box office so far; Footloose the album, with sales of more than a million, is currently No. 5 on the Billboard charts; and Footloose the single is No. 4. Of such stuff are multimedia successes made...
...that the sound-track boom has not marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn...