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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this month's 50th-anniversary issue of Action Comics, one episode opens with the man of steel indulging in a long and steamy kiss with Wonder Woman. After a good deal of fisticuffs and flying around, though, the tale ends with Superman saying "I was fooling myself when I thought there might be a chance for romance between the two of us, Wonder Woman . . . I admire you, Wonder Woman. I respect you. But I really am just a boy from Kansas." From which it seems clear that the comic-book Superman, at least, remains as squarely virtuous as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...Democrat turned Republican from North Carolina who was serving as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, seems more like a merger. He is curiously distant from his only child Robin, a daughter from his first marriage; when he arrives at a podium, he will give his wife a kiss and his daughter a handshake. Dole and his second wife, who have no children, live in his former bachelor apartment at the Watergate. They rarely have time for dinner together, and when they do it tends to be a microwaved frozen meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Transplant patients are allowed virtually no skin contact with their relatives, and Chrisha's mother and grandmother said they can only touch her with their scrubbed hands. Christine Froio said that not being able to kiss Chrisha is "the worst feeling in the world." As a partial solution, Cudmore said she puts a facecloth on Chrisha's head in order to kiss...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...campaign season haunted by the specter of billion-dollar deficits, many presidential candidates are being forced to respond to questions about how they would balance the federal budget. Since announcing a plan to raise taxes would be a political kiss of death, the candidates are looking for less painful alternatives...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: An Appropriate Veto | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Museum of Art) and to take his phone calls several times a week. Donnie Brasco (Pistone chose the name at random) never took notes and rarely carried a recorder or radio transmitter because they might be discovered when he greeted fellow Mafiosi with the traditional hug and kiss. He began by frequenting Manhattan clubs and restaurants where wise guys hang out and gradually joined the fringes of the Colombo family. As he started establishing relations with Bonanno Family Members Lefty Ruggiero and Sonny Black, the FBI decided to continue the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strife And Death in the Family | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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