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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER SEEING Blind Date, I finally understood that Bruce Willis' irresistable charm comes from his cosmic ordinariness: he seems like just an average guy trying to get from A to B. Women want to straighten out his ever-crooked tie, men want to share a few rounds of beer with him, and the fact that Willis is simply not an average guy makes him no less appealing...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Date Misbehavin' | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...Blind Date...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Date Misbehavin' | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...become easier since the C-Span cable network began televising the proceedings of the two houses. Now reporters watch them on big television sets in the third-floor rabbit warren called the Senate Press Gallery, with its incongruously ornate ceiling and floor, joined by drab partitions of a later date. Where they once had to sit in the gallery, now correspondents can watch the action or lack thereof as they tap away at their modem word processors, sip coffee and turn down the volume on Senators D'Amato and Helms...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Roadblock in the Capitol | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...date, however, efforts at self-policing in gospel TV have failed miserably. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability of Washington monitors the ethical performance of agencies independent of church control and gives them a seal of approval. But its leader, the Rev. Arthur Borden, admits that loss of such accreditation has no impact on an agency. Of the biggest TV evangelists, only Billy Graham, who does not have a weekly series, is a member in good standing. The National Religious Broadcasters, to which most of the big operations belong, is toughening its ethical code and creating a voluntary agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...show," said Montgomery, of Robert W. Montgomery Landscape Nursery, Chester Springs, Pa. "If your advertising budget is just 5%, it should all go into the Philadelphia Flower Show. It's the ringing of the bell in the Philadelphia market. It says spring is here. And it's a fixed date." It was the second week in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: A Flower Show | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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