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Collecting votes in great numbers is a simple, if never-ending, task, Sullivan says. "Every day is election day for me. I'm out working every day of the week, saying hello, doing favors for people." No one hesitates to call, apparently. "They know where to get to me. And if I'm on vacation they can get my brother. We hardly ever leave at the same time." Campaigning means more than fixing sidewalks and finding jobs, though. Sullivan attends about 35 weddings a year ("that's a helluva lot of weddings") and goes to an average of two wakes...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Education Of a City Kingpin | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...long, all public employees will be facing pink slips should-they dare to ask for more money (money Reagan must use to bloat the defense budget and the safes of oil companies), and with that precedent, it will soon be private-sector employees accused of tampering with national security. Hello, 1890s...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Departures | 8/7/1981 | See Source »

...texts. His informality was ice breaking. Britain's starchy Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was clearly pleased rather than affronted by his familiarity when Reagan at one point leaned toward her and said, "Maggie, I love you." When French President François Mitterrand greeted him with a cheery "Hello," the President answered: "Thanks for saying hello in my language. Let me say 'Bonjour.' " He then went on to apologize for his largely forgotten high school French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit of a Strong Seven | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...students were badly beaten in the subway this spring when an angry passerby spotted them arm in arm. "Being outrageous" also included behavior which would not seem especially flamboyant if committed by heterosexual couples--like holding hands in the dining hall or on the street, and kissing each other hello in public...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Gay Rights: The Emergence of a Student Movement | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...breakup of his marriage and the decline of his fortunes. In 1958, owing $50,000 in taxes, he moved to a working-class neighborhood in Paris. During the '60s, he wrote gloomy memoirs under the titles Not Dying and Don't Go, but If You Must, Say Hello to Everybody. His novel Boys and Girls Together (1963) took a bleak view of marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hello Out There | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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