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...from Houston to Austin, the green flatlands float past the window and Madonna settles down for an interview. She is wearing a Kelly green knit skirt, which is peeled down over her belly, and a Paisley shirt knotted above her waist. Her streaked blond hair is twisted into a bun and held in place by a big red bow. Her lips are painted bright red and exaggerated. Her voice is a little raw and raspy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Logic dictates that the best way to limit handgun deaths is to limit the supply of handguns. Some, such as Hart, base their opposition to such restrictions on the assertion that a bun is ineffective. Yet most of Western Europe, Japan and Canada have either bans or very strict regulations, or registrations and suffer much lower murder rates. Hart's true reluctance to embrace such a measure, an side acknowledged in an interview, lies partly in his belief that somehow people have some right to own whatever weapon they choose...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Hart's Smoking Gun | 4/4/1984 | See Source »

...Atlanta debate a week ago Sunday. "When I hear about your new ideas," Mondale told Hart, "I'm reminded of the ad 'Where's the beef?' " The audience cracked up, and Mondale took the slogan out on the hustings, more than once using a hamburger bun as a prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Hart Stew | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...queries began on Jan. 9, when Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers launched a new, $8 million television ad campaign. The first 30-second spot features three elderly ladies who have walked into a fictional "Home of the Big Bun" hamburger outlet and become outraged by the microscopic size of the patty on a gargantuan, fluffy bun. One woman, played by Octogenarian Clara Peller, asks irately, "Where's the beef?" The implied answer: Wendy's quarter-pound burgers have the beef. In a second spot, Peller uses a telephone to put the inevitable question to the owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Ribbing | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...Marianne Moore attended nearby Bryn Mawr, where Hilda eventually dropped out after failing English. In 1911 she left for England and Pound, who was already there politicking for modernism and cutting a rebellious figure in velvet jacket and flowing tie. He edited her new poems in the British Museum bun shop, trimmed her byline down to initials and made her a charter member of the Imagist movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Astronomer's Daughter | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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