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...inevitably, the recriminations were severest at the staff level, precisely where much of the sloppy work in preparing the trip occurred. One Kohl aide, noting the standard line among U.S. officials that they were "following the wishes of our host," declared acidly: "The White House just told the manure wagon to unload at our back door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Homage to History | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

They looked a little older and were perhaps not quite so bouncy: 30 years is a long time by any measurement. But his voice still sounded like an overloaded station wagon lumbering up a gravel road, her wisecracks could still break open a Brink's vault, and they projected the same vitality they did when they were feuding, fussing and making up on Chauncey Street in Brooklyn. Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden, the Honeymooners, were back together in Miami last week, taping an NBC special to be aired next Monday. As Gleason used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: How Sweet It Is, Again | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...guessed Police Academy, Hot Moves, Hardbodies, Joysticks, Weekend Pass, Private Lessons, Zapped!, My Tutor, Beach Girls, Summer Camp, Goin' All the Way, Hot Dog . . . The Movie, Bachelor Party, Party Animal, Paradise Motel, Private School, Mugsy's Girls, Hollywood Hot Tubs, The Last American Virgin, Mischief, The Wild Life, Lunch Wagon, Night Patrol, Porky's and Porky's II: The Next Day. If you missed any of those, don't worry. Porky's Revenge! came out only last month, grossing a huge $6.2 million in its first weekend. Police Academy 2: Their first assignment opened last week and took in nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Animal House BEGAT . . . | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...know it. The tight lipped evil of a monocled Erie Stroherm snapping his swagger stick has nothing on the gagging scale to the beatific smiles found on any evangelical show, their lips drooling the milk of human kindness. The only reason that the prototypical single of the Band band-wagon ("Do They Know It's Christmas") could be stomached was that it got no higher on the saccharinemeter than the usual sappy Christmas season pieties that inundate America's speakers after Thanksgiving. Radio stations had enough good taste to erase that song from their playlists after December 26th...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: We Fooled the World | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

...required to be at the American Legion post at 7 a.m. with his horse, to be in costume and to wear a mask. One of the twelve rules he must obey is that he "shall not possess nor consume any beverage except as dispensed from the liquor wagon." All day he will ride through the country collecting chickens, rice and vegetables for a gumbo the womenfolk will cook back in town. The column will be halted frequently for beer and boiled eggs. A Cajun band on a wagon, relying heavily on fiddle, washboard, squeeze-box, guitar and triangle, will serenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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