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...enough to make John Cougar Mellancamp cry "Oh Boy." If he sees the new Ford ad, he might let out "Oh Buick." Although "It's So Easy (To Buy Tercel)," it is not easy to listen to these rock and roll classics remade and then overplayed. Roll Over Buddy Holly...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: It's So Cheesy | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Like last year's Blue Velvet, House of Games deals with a supposedly normal character who gets pulled into an undertow of evil and finds, to her surprise, that she enjoys living out the part of herself she's always repressed. Lindsay Crouse is Dr. Margaret Ford, a committed workaholic who is unable to enjoy the success of her first book, entitled Driven: Obsession and Compulsion in Everyday Life. She is as obsessive and lost as the people she treats. Sucking ferociously on cigarette after cigarette, she is the picture of neurosis...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Fair Games | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

DEBATE? VIEWERS and voters Tuesday night heard more from sponsors Ford, Wang and the Travellers Corporation than they did from any of the 12 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates playing musical chairs on a crowded Kennedy Center stage. Literally. I have the figures, as Paul Simon said, explaining how he could give every American a job and balance the budget at the same time...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: A Brokawed Convention | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

...born Haller retired in October, just as this reverential book was coming off the presses. Most of the recipes are for hearty, homey family favorites that reflect the regional backgrounds of Presidents from Lyndon Johnson (who favored Texas-style chili con carne, lamb hash and deer sausage), through Gerald Ford (lusty, German-influenced fare like sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage, apple pancakes and a revolting curried tuna casserole), to Ronald Reagan (hamburger soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events with personal reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down-Home Around the World | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...power in Washington is absolute. Not so many years ago, when House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, known as the "gut fighter," became an embarrassment, some young bucks got together and tossed him out. Jerry Ford took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker's Itch for Power | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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