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Loners trolling for cans in New York City doubtless include some of the city's 50,000 or so homeless. But they are not always downtrodden. Can Picker John-Ed Croft, 50, abandoned a career as a computer program analyst to take up life as a painter. Croft has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Give Me Your Wretched Refuse | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

The Republican National Committee, which has been dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Not Quite So Grand | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Such jokes -- delivered, as all her slings are, with a great guileless smile -- fulfill the tradition of the defiant female wit, alive with innuendo, that stretches from the Wife of Bath to Belle Barth. They also tend to obscure Midler's unique talent. Yes, she coos bedroom ballads like Long...

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

It is an odd and compact art form, and somewhat unnatural. A person feels uncomfortable composing a little song of himself for the classifieds. The personal ad is like haiku of self-celebration, a brief solo played on one's own horn. Someone else should be saying these things. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Advertisements for Oneself | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

The warfare on Hollywood Boulevard began about nine months ago when the cruisers arrived. Trolling around in cars is the all-American pastime, but California cruisers have transformed it into an elaborate ritual. Not just any car will do. The idea is to attract attention. Stereos, painted names and modified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Combat at Hollywood and Vine | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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