Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone knows that TV commercials are better than the shows," says Comic Steve Martin. So, Martin has taped All Commercials, an NBC special set to air in September. Among the products he plugs: Truman Capote jeans, the Just a Second Honey bra and Mount St. Helens laxative. But his favorite bit is a tribute to Morris the Cat, finicky flack for feline food. "He and I were quite close. His death came as a real shock," Martin confides. "I want to show the real Morris, the private Morris." For this, he boasts, he is purrfect: "People who knew...
FICTION: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz∙The Magic Labyrinth, Philip Jose Farmer∙The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Reagan berated the Carter Administration for deserting the defense policies of "Harry Truman, John Kennedy and many contemporary leaders of the Democratic Party." He quoted President Kennedy to the effect that only by being No. 1 can the U.S. "stop the next war before it starts." Though Reagan was the clear favorite of the Legionnaires, they had no real complaint with any of the candidates...
Betty J. DeVito, a mother of seven from Mercer, Pa., was an ebullient woman who explained she was drawn to politics the day she heard Harry Truman speak from the caboose of a campaign train when she was 13. In New York, she got up every morning at 6:30 and was busy being a Carter delegate far into the night, even though her feet were swollen, and she figured it would cost her $700 to attend the convention, and she had to take a week off from her job without...
...Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another lyricist, perhaps: Alan Jay Lerner. Harry Truman's? Edgar Lee Masters. Richard Nixon's? Imamu Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones). Eugene McCarthy's? Eugene McCarthy...