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...Harvard. She saw in him the perfect Kentucky gentleman who could make her dreams of genteel grandeur come true. "Like Barry," Brenner writes, "she . . . had grown up with the same hard lessons of vanquished pride, the specter of Civil War memorials, geriatric veterans invited for Sunday dinner, and the endless parades of cripples . . . celebrating another battle of the Lost Cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Feud HOUSE OF DREAMS | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...turns out that this backup singer has some pretty good dance moves as well, making for endless possibilities for interplay between her and Prince. And in more than one tune they meet--with electric results...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...sick to death of the way the presidential election is being carried on these days. The candidates don't inspire me, let alone sing to me, and I can't take much more of the endless bickering, endless polling or endless speculation by newscasters who need to fill six hours of their "Election '88" specials every primary day. The ability of the media to predict public opinion has taken the fun and luck out of politics. Under today's system there's no chance that we'll ever see the excitement of a surprise upset such as Harry Truman...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Mr. President, a-la Megabucks | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...longer would we be subjected to months of the endless scrutiny of the candidates, their qualifications and their personal habits the media force on us. Now, there simply wouldn't be time. The whole thing could be done in a few hours. Nor would this hurt the media--the show could become a single night's entertainment extravaganza, like the Academy Awards. The networks could rotate the rights each year and charge the most exorbitant advertising rates ever conceived of. Ronald Reagan could...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Mr. President, a-la Megabucks | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...Driving School of Texas, a boot camp for long-haul drivers. The school's aim is to take a driver who may never have driven a car with a stick shift and, in three weeks of nonstop instruction, turn the greenhorn into a licensed, road-ready trucker. That means endless hours of double-clutching around a 3.2-mile course of rutted concrete while dodging orange traffic cones and 50 other student truckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Where Road Scholars Get Their Education | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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