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...owners, possessors of spinning wheels, antique crockery, vintage automobiles or sows that would fetch blue ribbons at any county fair -- but the Titusville event swept you back and held you stuck in time through the course of an afternoon (Why does the word stirring come uncharacteristically to mind?). Any sucker for a Zippo lighter, a cracked leather flight jacket, the music of Glenn Miller or the recollection of a sassy riveter with a mouth like a beesting would have found peace in this field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Des Moines: Worms for Sale | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...produce a record that not only "takes cover in the groove" (as he would have it) but even manages to "funk the bomb" (as the Village Voice proclaimed in a recent review). The salacious echo of "funking the bomb" is in your own mind: We're talking funk, sucker...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...begin righting this imbalance, however, is the subject of heated disagreement in Washington. On one side is the White House, which clings to the ideal of free trade. On the other is an apparent majority in Congress, which seems convinced that the U.S. is being played for a sucker by its so- called friends abroad. As they maneuvered for position last week, both sides made major moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...little more practical when he bought his two miniature quails. Shopping for food for his pet turtle, a Christmas present from his dad, Dale, describing himself as "entrepreneurial," spotted the pair and decided that he would buy them and breed them. Besides, he adds, "I'm a sucker for anything with a beak...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Room Pets: Furry Malefactors? | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

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