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...nemesis: a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound, was plagued by a black market and strikes. A meat shortage was so bad that House Speaker Sam Rayburn dubbed the 1946 debacle "a damned 'beefsteak election!' " But '46 was also, says Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, "a referendum on Truman," whom contemporaries regarded as too small-town, too intellectually limited and too amiable to command "the fearsome respect" that should attend his office. They couldn't vote him out, so they voted the 80th Congress...
...nine o'clock on a Monday, and the Piano Man wasn't singing. Twelve hundred people gathered in Sanders Theatre Monday night to see Billy Joel--the man who married supermodel Christie Brinkley, the man who put Long Island on the map, the man who has put us in a New York State of Mind for 20 years--and he sang just five measly songs...
This is a man, after all, who makes his living through songs. He's no philosopher. He's no sage. And even though he somehow managed to wed Christie Brinkley for a brief, shining moment, he's no expert on women...
Joel avoided talking about his recent divorce with Christy Brinkley, although he made some jokes about divorce throughout the night...
...back as Dial hunts for the next Basinger or Brinkley...