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Unlike her idol Garry Shandling, Snow does not want to do a television series full time. "I love my stand-up. I'm not saying that I'm Gandhi but I do have something...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Snow Makes Sailors Come Ashore | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...years at Alderson Federal Correctional Institution in West Virginia, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme was a model inmate. Serving a life sentence for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, Fromme seemed content to do her time in the state that was once home to her idol, Charles Manson. "I'm thinking Manson, air, water and earth," said Fromme upon her transfer to Alderson eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Squeaky's Christmas Hike | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...Party only as a substitute for the political opposition he makes clear he will not tolerate. If he voices criticism of Soviet society, it is because that system has in his view strayed from the ideals of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state and Gorbachev's idol. And though he argues frequently for a new relationship with the U.S., he seems to have an odd conception of America as a Dickensian hell ruled by the military-industrial complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...attempt to insure the longevity oftheir idol, about five of the Club's members willgo to New Hampshire this weekend to participate inChannel 11's annual fund drive and encourage thecontinued showing of Dr. Who on PBS stations...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Club Reveals Who They Love | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...surprising that Julie Grialou's running idol is Joan Benoit-Samuelsson...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Running Ahead of the Crowd | 11/12/1987 | See Source »

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