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...sources, meaning wealthy Texas REpublicans, oil companies, a local newspaper, and others. Throughout the downtown area, a logo welcoming the Republicans to Dallas (an elephant inside a large "D" for Dallas) was displayed on all storefront windows and flags with the logo flapped next to American flags from streetlight. Cab drivers were brought together at a big meeting and told that if they presented Dallas in a good light to their fares, they and Dallas would get more business in the future...

Author: By Mark E. Fineberg, | Title: Unconventional Warfare | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

...explained candidly that he was there to see not Feinstein but Ferraro, who had arrived for the pre-convention planning. He met with the Congresswoman for two hours in her Hyatt Hotel suite, seeking assurances that there were no potential problems in her past. As he left in a cab for the airport, Reilly found a TV van following. "Lose it," Reilly barked at the driver, who raced the car through alleys and side streets. At the airport, Reilly hid in a phone booth until his plane was ready to leave. On the same day, Mondale-aide Michael Berman went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geraldine Ferraro: A Break with Tradition | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...less sweeping. In a 1976 report on the decline of a Spanish village, he "removed the specifics" from a description of the place to preserve its privacy; Shawn says the village was recognizable as "a composite." In a 1982 account from Spain, Reid attributed a conversation with an unnamed cab driver to a particular trip, although he concedes that he does not know exactly when it occurred because his notes "have no dates on them." For the magazine's "The Talk of the Town," a compendium of short, quasi-editorial reports, he described his son's 1982 Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Embroidering the Facts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

RHINESTONE She (Dolly Parton) is a country singer itching to escape from her predatory manager. He (Sylvester Stallone) is a Noo Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nothing New Under the Sun | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...warning about going to The Channel: all evening shows end after the subway closes, so be prepared to shell out up to $10 to get back to Harvard, if you can find a cab. Otherwise, you may have to hoof it to the Common...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Lots Of Sweet, Lots of Tunes | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

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