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Bush campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke last week criticized Clinton and Gore for indulging in family therapy. Said she: "Real men don't get on the couch." That depends, of course, on one's party affiliation. A Campaign Guide for Real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorecard: Aug. 10, 1992 | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Dread the couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorecard: Aug. 10, 1992 | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Faith No More's targets are the rich and powerful. In the darkly humorous RV, Patton plays to the hilt a fortysomething couch potato who has made a career of failure. He narrates the sorry soliloquy in a gravelly, hangover-from-hell drone to a bluesy piano and guitar accompaniment. "Besides listening to my belly gurgle/ Ain't much else to do," he groans, then concludes by mumbling, "I think it's time I had a talk with my kids/ I'll just tell 'em what my daddy told me/ You ain't ever gonna amount to nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Their Own Road | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

Alas for both Democrats and couch potatoes, love feasts make boring television. This one, in fact, will make next to no network television; ABC, CBS and NBC plan a mere one to two hours of live coverage a night. The best theater may be on the streets outside Madison Square Garden. Besides the inevitable demonstrations, casts of all the current Broadway musicals will put on a free, open-air show for conventioneers in Times Square. To protect the 5,000 delegates, 15,000 journalists and innumerable hangers-on expected, the city will flood the streets with police. And to drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Southern All-Star Team for Democrats | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...previous studies: it does, but by an average of just 2% to 3%. Still, a 1% reduction nationwide could lead to a 2% drop in deaths from heart disease. The biggest reduction occurs in people with the highest cholesterol levels, but bran alone probably won't do much for couch potatoes who eat a high-fat diet. That's only so-so news for the Quaker Oats Co., which sponsored the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oats: The Final Word? | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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