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Finally, the Democrats should hammer home their pro-choice stance on abortion rights. Republican convention battles over the issue should stand in stark contrast to firm Democratic support for women's rights...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

...next sad love affair. Meanwhile, real life on ! Lawrence Street: a two-story frame house in a working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. But, says Mrs. Deering, "I'd never marry a musician. I've seen so many bad marriages with musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Her Own Sweet Time | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...museum would want to have. (The 1980s produced shoals of zillionaires but few connoisseurs.) And second, a fashion among the rich for making their own "vanity" museums, a practice whose reductio ad absurdum was reached by places like the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago and the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles -- a $100 million shell with maybe six paintings of quality inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: The Gift of A Lifetime | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...grip, some of the better houses are selling as quickly as brokers can list them. At the Greater Boston & Real Estate Board, officials say pending sales are up 55% for the first seven weeks of the year. In Wellesley, Mass., last week a broker was just taking out his hammer to put up his sign in front of a shingled Cape Cod overlooking a lake when a man emerged from the house. "Put the sign away," said the buyer. "It's already sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Buyers Are Back | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...idea of mounting a salute to the troops in Saudi Arabia. But when the program put out a call for celebrities to participate in the tribute, the TV staff feared that the tight schedule would discourage stars from taking part. The producers need not have worried. Tom Selleck, M.C. Hammer and the entire cast of Roseanne signed up. So did Ben Vereen, who sang a spirited version of Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now and later joined country singer Lee Greenwood and Susan Anton for a heartfelt rendition of America the Beautiful. Said Vereen: "I want us as a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Saudi Arabia | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

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