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...could cruise at 100 m.p.h. with its air-cooled rear engine. It boasted innovations that later became Detroit standards: disk brakes, a padded dashboard and curiosities such as a pop-out windshield and a crash compartment. (Preston's idea for seat belts was nixed by his company's board.) Sticker price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Car Of Tomorrow | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...ticket to ride, or honk if you love astronauts. At an Ohio delegation party, perennial Vice-Presidential Also-Ran John Glenn presented Lloyd Bentsen with a red-white-and-blue bumper sticker reading DUKAKIS GLENN. An overoptimistic Glenn supporter had ordered up 10,000, and the Ohio Senator was intent on unloading them. "Since I park next to you in the Senate garage," he informed Bentsen, "I'll expect to see it every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...Horton case is being used to paint Dukakis with that most damaging ) liberal stereotype: soft on crime. George Bush has taken to citing his differences with the Governor by saying, "I don't like the idea of letting murderers out of jail." One G.O.P. strategist has proposed a bumper sticker reading, DUKAKIS TO RAPIST: HAVE A NICE WEEKEND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...frightening bumper sticker slogan was born, characteristic of an attitude arising from the stultifying pattern of major events coming from and leading to nowhere. Kurt Vonnegut's deadening commentary on Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five "So it goes," was transposed into: "Shit happens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Transitions | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Transitions | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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