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...campaign will be simple, elegant with a pithy slogan: "Duke. Coke. A slant rhyme. A straight arrow...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Choice of a Pop Generation | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...picture him as a wiry, scrawny Lee Oswald with a push broom, peeking into girls' lockers when no one's looking." But the Nightmare films are more than a Freddy phenomenon. With sharp humor, a dash of B-movie style and the eerie simplicity of a child's counting rhyme, they tap profound adolescent fears, then exorcise them. It's catharsis on the cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

John Kennedy would get a good chuckle out of today's reverence for the 1960 Boston-Austin political partnership meticulously reconstructed by Michael Dukakis with Lloyd Bentsen. Kennedy had planned a Boston-St. Louis axis, which doesn't even rhyme. He intended to run with Missouri's Stuart Symington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats The Presidency: Boston-Austin Was an Accident | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...serve as a metaphor for Jackson's ill-focused California primary campaign. Jackson's challenge to Michael Dukakis is at best a sideshow to the "real" campaign between the Massachusetts Governor and George Bush. As Jackson scurries around California, he gives the appearance of a candidate who has rhyme but not reason to keep going. He flits from issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse's Sideshow | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...workers, angry wives. All those voices! And everyone asking the same questions: "Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end?" These ontological riddles echo in the angels' ears like a plaintive nursery rhyme from the children under their care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Angel Who Fell to Earth WINGS OF DESIRE | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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