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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hirsch's Charles epitomizes the dilemma of having too much of a good thing. Bigamy normally isn't considered a funny topic. Yet the way Hirsch manages to deal with his world as it falls around his knees is funny. The simper on his face expresses the utter absurdity of his situation. As he tries to explain to Ruth: "Why should having a cheese thing after lunch make me see my deceased wife after dinner...
What is most distressing is that the criticisms of Quayle's record came not just from his political opponents or from an academic elite, but also from people like Jay Leno and David Letterman, who hardly received Rhodes scholarships themselves. It isn't just a matter of Ivy League students disparaging people who don't go to college; friends at home, from laborers to the self-employed to college dropouts, claim they sometimes feel inferior and less intelligent because they never received a degree...
...While you are going through the transition period it is. If you take 120,000 RJR Nabisco people, yes, there will be some dislocation. But the people that I have, particularly the Atlanta people, have very portable types of professions: accountants, lawyers, secretaries. It isn't that I would be putting them on the breadline. We have excellent severance arrangements...
Serve art and scrounge for money. Exploit talent, but be fair. Serve up the pyrotechnics, but keep an eye on all those overstressed knees and feet. It isn't easy to run a ballet company...
...called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going to die, isn...