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...Ginny Redington wrote the quintessential "me"-decade song in 1975 for McDonald's hamburgers: "You, you're the one ..." Today, says Redington, "it's the exact antithesis. Nationalism is a success formula. Everything is America. 'Clean your face, America.' 'Brush your teeth, America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mirror, Mirror, on the Tube | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Father's Day centers on two strong Irishmen: P.B. Kinsella, a self-made Chicago construction magnate, and his son Tom, a priest who has become president of Notre Dame. Some brilliant flashbacks explore the genesis of P.B.'s touchdown philosophy, his initiation into Chicago politics, his brush with racketeering. Others chart Tom's rise to power at the university and follow him through an ardent friendship with an actress named Maria Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighting Irish | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...whole he thought that art was probably easier to take care of. As the sun set over Pei's masterpiece, they walked out to the car in the company of a young couple from Brookline all maligned Pissarro, though none of them had ever held a brush. When they got to the car there was a notice on it that said the convertible was being converted to a condominium and they had the option to buy. From Huntington Avenue came the sounds of turbo-powered portable stereos and the roar of Trans-Ams. The name of such cars...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Chivalry | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

...Tatterhood, Phelps writes that "we shall never know" whether the heroine was lovely or plain, because it does not matter. Phelps also adds a brush stroke here and there to make the females more active. In "The Twelve Huntsmen," she has the prince collapse at the key moment, not the girl. The Maid of the North, in the original version, fends off a suitor by talking up the disadvantages of leaving home to join a stranger's household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Feminist Folk and Fairy Tales | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...Faustus. Tempted by the devil, the doctor, a chiropractor, finds that temptation rubs him the wrong way and so gives the devil a quick brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There Must Be a Nicer Way | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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