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...woman, has spent most of the season making cynical jokes about motherhood ("Oh, right, the unforgettable thrill of passing a bowling ball"). Yet when the baby finally arrives, there's our new mother, misty-eyed, crooning (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman to the newborn. For a gal who knows the words to In-A-Gadda- Da-Vida, she's starting to sound an awful lot like Debby Boone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor And Other Pains | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

ENERGY. Tsongas has taken heat from Clinton's ads for proposing a gasoline-tax increase -- even though Clinton himself supported a 5 cents-per-gal. hike in the Arkansas gas tax last year. Despite his opponent's attacks, Tsongas' higher gasoline tax would help curb America's energy use and would provide funds for mass transit and rebuilding roads and bridges and would reduce the budget deficit. Siegel calls the proposal "a very brave position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: May The Best Plan Win | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

Outside the oil patch, few notice and many benefit from the price slump. Supplies of oil and gas for home heating and industry, abetted by a string of six warm winters, have remained abundant. And the price of gasoline, an average $1.03 per gal. nationwide for regular, is the lowest in months, thanks largely to OPEC and other foreign producers; they have made up the drop in domestic production by supplying 43% of U.S. oil consumption. On the other hand, the public has not benefited from the drop in natural-gas prices, as pipeline companies and distributors have gobbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times The Great Energy Bust | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Crazy for You has several moments when characters might wrench out their feelings. But in the leading roles of a playboy who just wants to sing and dance, and a small-town gal who just wants to honor her dad, Harry Groener is all tinny energy and Jodi Benson is all hollow spunk, so even the big ballads don't pay off. He dances and sings just well enough to remind one of the greats without rivaling them. She is so amplified vocally that she sounds as though she were in a recording studio. The real blame belongs with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tap Dancing into Yesterday | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

INVESTMENT. Tsongas' aversion to a tax cut, his opposition to an increased tax exemption for children (which Clinton favors) and his proposal for a yearly 5 cents-per-gal. gasoline-tax increase (which Clinton opposes) illustrate the considerable philosophical gulf between the two candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Who Has the Best Plan for Fixing the Economy? | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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