Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, Spencer has not been content simply to repeat himself. True, a spooky erotic attachment threads its way through this tale. Narrator Fielding Pierce, 34, has trouble forgetting his girlfriend Sarah Williams, who was blown up by a car bomb nearly five years earlier while driving in Minneapolis with some Chilean refugees. In those days, Pierce was a University of Chicago law student who harbored political ambitions. Now he is a prosecutor in the Cook County D.A.'s office and has been offered the Democratic machine's support for an Illinois congressional seat. Isaac Green, his influential mentor, gives...
...through the clutter." To keep viewers from wandering into the kitchen during the station break, many businesses are relying on skits that might have been staged by a bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby Gray Volkswagen-Mazda in Jackson, Miss., features nine car salesmen in matching sweatshirts, khaki pants and tennis shoes who stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other six do an out-of-step side-to-side shuffle. In between refrains...
Calvin Worthington, 65, a Los Angeles auto dealer, wears a cowboy hat in his ads and parades around a car lot with animals ranging from pigs and tigers to hippos and elephants, each of whom he refers to as "my dog Spot." Wayne Greenstein, 32, and Brother Marc, 34, whose family owns Coronet juvenile furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria...
...house in Providence that Ozzie and Harriet could have lived in. The only telltale sign of Stevens' activism is a 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit parked outside and plastered with bumper stickers like I'M PRO CHOICE . . . AND I VOTE. "I kid my friends that putting a bumper sticker on a car is the big political act of the '80s," Stevens laughs. She has maintained her sense of humor and the sense of commitment that led her, as a senior at fashionable all-women Wheaton, to tutor poor black children in a Boston ghetto...
...last items in their summer itineraries, they are setting out to explore what John Steinbeck called "this monster of a land." Travelers will be driving down country roads, hiking in the mountains, jogging on the beach. Their expeditions will spark a business boom for hotel owners and cruise operators, car-rental companies and motor-home manufacturers. In all, some 92 million Americans and 24 million foreigners are expected to vacation in the U.S. this year. As a result, revenues for the U.S. tourist industry may reach a record $280 billion, up some 10% from last year...