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...morality detract in no way from the music he made. I don't have to say this, I just thought I should. People only remember the bad stuff, the fights he got into, the women he done wrong and the patronizing way he let Sammy into the Rat Pack. But what about the good? It was Frank, remember, who brought Jerry and Dean back together on Jerry's telethon a few years back. He didn't have to. He wasn't paid for it. He just...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: He Just Did It | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...time being, if Americans increase their saving, they will be doing so voluntarily. At least some consumers are already showing signs of disillusionment with the rat race of materialism. Fear of hard times may be a growing incentive to save, along with anger over America's economic weakness. One New York savings bank, Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Urge to Splurge | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...best of all, watch Titanic Thompson repeatedly succeed against all odds. He tosses a walnut over a three-story building. He drives a golf ball 400 yards. He shoots a live rat in a pitch black basement. Of course, Thompson has things rigged so that none of his "propositions" were really against the odds...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...humorous into the cute. One moment, the family's house is burned to the ground, forcing them to move in with mother's grandparents. But no sooner are they there then Grandpa's comic zaniness changes the mood, as he interrupts breakfast on the veranda to shoot at a rat in his vegetable garden. The scene is absurd enough to make a Scrooge laugh, but it hangs loosely between serious scenes of death and destruction...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Blitzed Out | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts that besmirches their view of a nearby hillside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Riddled with Fear | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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