Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manufacturers of personal computers have been using readily recognizable people for some time to make the slightly intimidating machines seem warmer and more empathetic. Apple has Dick Cavett for its commercials, Texas Instruments recruited Bill Cosby, Commodore has William Shatner, and Atari just hired Alan Alda. None of these living celebrities, however, has had the impact of the Tramp. The character has starred in three widely seen television commercials, plus more than 20 print ads. He has won numerous advertising-industry awards...
...closest thing to Dan Aykroyd on the new SNL; next month Eddie will move into a new house a mile away from Piscopo in Alpine, NJ. Otherwise, his best friends are his oldest friends. One of them, Clinton Smith, is an assistant to Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Dick Ebersol Another, Derrick Lawrence, 28, has signed on with Eddie Murphy Productions as an all-purpose aide-de-camp. "I'd been laid off from my job," Lawrence recalls, "and Eddie asked me if I wanted to work for him. I love Eddie for it and I always will...
Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler, formerly TIME'S Medicine and Science writer and the author of a 1976 cover article on Legionnaire's disease, renewed old medical contacts last week, spending two days in Washington with experts at the National Institutes of Health. San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson, reporting his third TIME story on AIDS in ten months, visited bars and restaurants in the "Castro," the city's largest homosexual district, interviewing employees and customers about the life-style changes brought on by fear of AIDS. He also visited patients and staff members at San Francisco General Hospital...
Many House Democrats, however, are gambling that the fairness question will play well by 1984 when, they assume, the economic recovery will have slowed. "Reagan will call us taxers and spenders," admitted Missouri's Dick Gephardt. "But it's worth it to address the fairness issue and the deficit problem...
...change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming as commonplace as potato chips and soggy sandwiches. Says Dick Ponte, a vice president of Stop & Shop, a supermarket chain: "We're having trouble keeping them on the shelves...