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...people saying that a fleshy, overbearing auto executive should be President of the U.S.? What accounts for the rampant Iacoccamania? There are many reasons, if no pat explanation. He is powerful, a VIP, yet his bullish candor reminds people of a pal at the local tavern who calls 'em as he sees 'em. He is feisty and anti-Establishment, but his patriotism makes that posture seem safe and red-blooded. Partly, his popularity is a function of the times: two-fisted capitalism is in vogue. After a long period of feeling cranky and skeptical, the country seems in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

National Public Radio, heard locally on WGBH-EM (87.), it will broadcast the first concert live tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newly Found Bach Preludes To Be Performed | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...When we were a man down in the second period, he stopped 'em once, twice and then reached around and stopped them a third time," said Crimson defenseman Mark Benning. "It was one of his best periods I've seen him play this year. He was playing out of his head," Benning added...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The Blair Truth | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

Scene two: surprise, surprise, it was all a dream-a discovery that no doubt leaves us mate with astonishment. What innovation. But where's Auntie Em? This is a dorm room at the Harvard Business School--surely a case of art imitating life imitating art, if ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: The Devil Made Me Do It | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

...attracts locals from Ault and Timnath. They come booted and hatted to do the two-steps and Western Swing on the sawdust-sprinkled dance floor Bruce's also beasts the best Rocky Mountain. Oysters in the state (Those, by the way, are deep the bull testicles. Don't knock 'em--they'll put on anyone's chest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

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