Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When all is said and done in this singular campaign, that may be the most important consideration. The final confrontation could be classic: Walter Mondale, who knows and values the role of the state, vs. Ronald Reagan, who has built his power by a direct dialogue with the people and given much of his long professional life to fighting Government...
...whole album permeates a sense of regression and risklessness; perhaps the most disheartening song on the album. "What Becomes a Legend Most," epitomizes this stepping back. A rip-off of Reed's earlier classic with the Velvet Underground, "New Age," the song signals an emptiness that has gripped this slugger. This man needs some new ideas. Limply rehashing old material does not become a legend...
...Mondale saw it, the choice of a woman would dramatically express his intention to open new doors. And the woman who most closely personalized what he would call the "classic American dream" was Ferraro, whose mother had worked as a seamstress to support her daughter after the father died. Ferraro, in turn, had worked as a teacher to finance nighttime law-school classes. She has been unusually close to her husband for 24 years of marriage and to their three children. Said a Mondale adviser: "She totally symbolized Mondale's fundamental case...
...sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show at a farm near Ocala that included 36 of his Arabians. The day before, the Armand Hammer Arabian Classic was run at Pompano Park. "Arabian horses are works of art," he says. "They are beautiful and lucrative." Hammer has been recommending them to friends. Talk Show Host Merv Griffin, 59, has already invested. Joked Griffin: "When Armand Hammer talks, E.F. Hutton listens...
...classic analysis of biblical narrative, The Great Code, Critic Northrop Frye finds that the Book of Job is "classified among the tragedies, but it is technically a comedy by virtue of its 'happy ending,' with Job restored to prosperity...