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...tomorrow. It was all a glorious today of heady triumph, + a happy blend of religiosity and athleticism. Reagan's principal appearances during the convention were at a prayer breakfast and for a speech that associated the runners who had just carried the Olympic flame across America with the torch-bearing Statue of Liberty. The crowd burst into cheers of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" This transcended normal politics. It was the politics of ecstasy. A Nuremberg rally without the menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: What Happened? | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...creature she once described as embodying "everything you were afraid your little girl would grow up to be -- and your little boy." The image obscured her rightful claim as the most dynamic and poignant singer-actress of her time: a 5-ft. 1-in. Statue of Libido carrying a torch with a blue flame. Her phrasings were as witty as Streisand's, her dredgings of a tormented soul as profound as Aretha's, her range wider than all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

DOWN THE STEPS WENT I, INTO the subterranean depths, torch thrust out ahead for light, seeking the Office of Career Services conference room. Okay, I didn't actually thrust out a torch, but it was pretty dark down there. And frightening. The agonizing search for summer employment was upon...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: ENDPAPER | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Some middle-class whites think AIDS only infects gays and poor minority- group members. "People believe that the higher the cover charge at a bar, the less likely they're going to run into AIDS," says Anna Gomez, 29, in South Miami's Parallel Bar. Says Playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) and Gay Activist Harvey Fierstein: "It's very hard for straight people to understand what the hell this is. The ugliness of the disease is that every stranger has it; everyone you like doesn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...singing group, the High Hopes, don spangled over-alls for "Put the Blame on Mamie (She Painted the White House Pink)" from the smash film that should've been, The Mamie Eisenhower Story.But the show never strays too far from its home, the nite-club, where "Song-stylists" moan torch songs and members of a capella groups strive, in the true spirit of the age, to be utterly indistinguishable from each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Theater: | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

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