Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They may not dress alike, but undressed, Stacy and Tracy Bayne are an almost identical double exposure. Writer Aaron Latham did a double take when he spied the 22-year-old confessed aerobiholics working out in a California health club, and decided that they would be ideal for Perfect!, his new movie based on his Rolling Stone article "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Latham, who turned an earlier story into Urban Cowboy, has once again lassoed John Travolta for the lead role as a reporter who works for a Rolling Stone editor, portrayed verisimilarly enough by Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner...
...rekindle enthusiasm for the post-World War II dream of a united and cohesive Western Europe capable of assuming a superpower's role in world affairs. The low voter turnout for last month's European parliamentary elections had sent the leaders an unmistakable message: support for that ideal among many citizens is flagging. Moreover, election gains by splinter parties of the left and right heralded a growing popular discontent with politics as usual...
...nothing at all. Suddenly there is a murder, then another, then ... Flynn is invited to investigate. Who is expunging all of these parasites? While the venerable members scurry about hiding corpses, Flynn puzzles it through, though the murders themselves seem just and appropriate. This is shameless Establishment bashing and ideal under-the-beach-umbrella reading...
...grizzly bear, from a proper distance, of course. March is the best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from its den by meteorologists...
...this fall. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, acting as a mediator between Mondale and Hart, said of the Senator: "He knows the importance of defeating Ronald Reagan and I'm convinced he'll play a constructive role in the weeks ahead." Many Democrats are even touting him as an ideal running mate for Mondale (see following story...