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Adultery is one of the most common transgressions. Callers admit their guilt over affairs with friends and next-door neighbors by voicing apologies intended for spouses. Others atone for past failings. Declared a recovered alcoholic: "I would like to apologize to all the people I hurt in my 18 years as an addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: True Confessions by Telephone | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...Dole still seemed to have a chance. Bush strategists added a modest $50,000 for more ads in those states to their already swollen TV budget of $1.8 million. They canceled live appearances in Alabama and Louisiana in favor of four more stops in Missouri, where the Senator from next-door Kansas is popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush by a Shutout | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...effort earned Dukakis a bronze medal in Iowa, he said, and in next-door New Hamshire, "We went for the gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis, Bush Win N.H. Primary Battles; Gephardt Beats Simon for Second Place | 2/17/1988 | See Source »

HAUPTMAN moves Gillette along quickly and serves up a lot of good one-liners ("I've got nothing against [marriage], except that it's a life without hope"). The goings-on become hilarious in the second act, when the expense and danger from next-door roughnecks push the duo out of their motel and onto the open prairie. There they set up house, a hibachi and Mickey's Roy Orbison records, and they look for romance outside the local jail, waiting for the first newly sprung women--two gold-hearted hookers named Brenda (Dawn Couch) and Cathy (Pamela Gien...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Oil Gluttony | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...many Americans, "verification" may be an abstract mouthful. But for 17,000 citizens of Magna, Utah, the word's meaning will soon be as vivid as a new next-door neighbor. Under terms of the just completed INF treaty, 30 to 40 Soviet inspectors will be stationed for 13 years in this flat, dusty mining community 16 miles west of Salt Lake City. Magna is home to nine bars, some dozen churches and the Hercules Aerospace Co., which has made boosters for Pershing II missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russians Are Coming | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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