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Cultural divisions among Anglos and Latins have also prompted bumper-sticker humor. WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? is a popular example. Allman gets his kick when North meets South, as in the alliance of David Kennedy, Miami's former Anglo mayor, and Rosario Arguelles, an exiled Havana debutante who married Kennedy in 1984 and was elected to the city commission the following year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urban Razzle, Fatal Glamour | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Seemingly within moments of Oliver North's appearance at the congressional Iran-contra hearings in July, quick-witted entrepreneurs rushed to cash in on Olliemania. There were Ollie T shirts, bumper stickers and dolls. The Old Man River Doghouse, an eatery in Tonawanda, N.Y., created the Oliver North sandwich, with beef, bologna, shredded lettuce and a "secret covert sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Ollie's Items Far from Hardy | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...offered any clear diagnosis of the highway madness. One factor is said to be the stresses of bumper-to-bumper competition, aggravated by the easy availability of guns. There is also the copycat syndrome. "Even the most mild-mannered among us has fantasies of blowing away the guy who cuts in front of him," observes Dr. Martin Brenner, an Orange County stress specialist. His advice: "Just be a wimp behind the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highway To Homicide | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...warm day in Chicago, so many commuters were listening to North on their car radios with the windows open that his testimony sounded like it was in multitudinous stereo. In other parts of the country, THANK YOU, OLIVER NORTH bumper stickers reminded commuters that Ollie was on the air. Those who could watch, did. Fifty-five million Americans saw all or part of North's testimony the first day. Ratings revealed that North's star turn was pulling in some 10% more than the usual daytime dosage of soap operas and game shows. At offices and stores around the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olliemania Breaks Out All Over | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...Bumper- to- bumper traffic clogging America' s expressways has forced frustrated drivers to experience life in the slow lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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