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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aroused gossip about a variety of capers. According to notes taken by her lawyers during a 1981 FBI interrogation, Parkinson told federal agents that Quayle propositioned her. "Quayles ((sic)) made a pass," read the handwritten notes, made available last week by Washington Attorney Glenn Lewis. "Said would like to sleep with you. Said no -- I'm ((with)) Tom. Quayles only one. No other passes." The 20 pages of notes did indicate that Quayle avoided other indiscreet behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quick Lesson in Major-League Politics | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...Gram and Grandpa Bush. With their own five offspring on the convention floor, the Vice President and his wife minded their ten rather rambunctious grandchildren. The youngsters made such a mess that an exhausted Barbara merely shoved aside the flowers and papers on her bed and went quickly to sleep. This was much to the disappointment of the two mischievous grandchildren who had planted a great fuzzy artificial snake in Grandma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...That was the birthday gift Reza Garakani, 14, one of the world's shortest dwarfs, would ask of friends and relatives year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...talk me out of this. He said it didn't matter if I could never drive a car, date girls or play games. He said the pain wouldn't be worth it. I don't blame him. He wasn't born in the U.S.A. I was." He drifted into sleep, smiling contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...long pause)) Well, I usually sleep pretty well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans He's Pretty Much a Blank Slate | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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