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Having never seen an escalator, you can imagine what he thinks of the bidet in his hotel room. Of course, Susan is forced to choose between her proper editor/boyfriend and the rugged Crocodile of her dreams, but Hogan, an appealing actor of sardonic understatement, gives this old hat plot new...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Down Under Delight | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

The people of northern Idaho and eastern Washington are typically rugged farmers, loggers and miners who work hard for a living. But if Washington Water Power, the region's main utility, has its way, some of them may be turning into laid-back sybarites, luxuriating their leisure hours away in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Delta's Ticket to the West | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

There has always been a certain legerdemain, if not hypocrisy, in Reagan's professed personal values. He preaches productivity and rugged individualism, but has always been something less than a workaholic. He preaches the sanctity of family, but is the only President to have been divorced. His relations with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

The man Reagan chose to remake the high court shares many of his roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Mr. Right | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

Everyone everywhere can drink Coke (almost $3 billion in foreign sales) and wear Levi's ($600 million) and watch Little House on the Prairie (broadcast in 110 countries). The lingua franca dispersion of English is both a cause and an effect of pop's global reach, but American pop commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Goes the Culture | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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