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...announcing his purchase, Trump called the shuttle "unique," and with characteristic syntax and bravado vowed to make it more so. "I want the planes to be beautiful," he said, "totally renovated and as nice as any in the air." At the moment, argues Alan Taylor, an image consultant to 28 airlines, the shuttle lacks a sense of style. "In the Trump name there's a certain magic," he says. "This basic transportation product can borrow some of that luster, that halo of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Donald Trumps the Shuttle | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

NEVADA. The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style. With a billing like that from his own publicist, Hecht obviously has problems in his race against Democratic Governor Richard Bryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Senate Battlegrounds | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...language that appears, syntax may appear or not. All six lectures have been planned in detail, but I don't know what they'll be. I'll find out by writing them," Cage told the Sanders Theatre audience before beginning the narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer Delivers Norton Lecture | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told her, "you'll need to express yourself with more than your legs and arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...been photographed "burning an American flag while she was an antiwar demonstrator during the '60s." The rumor is totally unsubstantiated, but that has not stopped zealots from spreading it. Replied Mrs. Dukakis: "It's untrue, unfounded, and there is no picture." Said Dukakis, in obvious frustration and fractured syntax: "I find oneself in the position of denying nonexistent facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Pledge | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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