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...tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hard to Handle | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...regimental band's bag pipes, fifes and drums, the Queen Mum presented her troops with fresh sprigs of three-leaf clover, which they stuck into the braiding of their caps. Then the commanding officer cried, "Three cheers for the Queen Mother!" whereupon there was a rousing "Hip, hip, hooray!" As the band struck up the chords of the St. Patrick's Day march and the men filed past their royal chief, Irish eyes were brightly smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 1984 | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Hooray for Feldstein! He would make a good President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 26, 1984 | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

What was unusual was the intervention of the President. "Hooray, the heat's off us," said one Pentagon official when Reagan assumed responsibility. But another top military man expressed a more prevalent view. "The entire military is built on the basis of evaluation of performance," he said. "A lot of people will come to believe that if you get into trouble, there will always be some political escape mechanism." While the officers criticized will not face a court-martial, they have probably lost hope of important assignments or attaining significant promotions. Any officer who feels that the commission criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Yippee for gold! Hooray for money...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

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