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...followed at the mike by other champs-for-a-day: an accountant, a short-order cook named Larry, a computer specialist who beams while a wag introduces him as "the greatest lead voice from Florida." He bows and launches into Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Fellowship and fun count for more than tonal quality in barbershopping, a thriving movement that celebrates a unique song style: the four-part unaccompanied harmony that flourished at the turn of the century on porches, street corners, saloons and, yes, barbershops across America. In its early years, barbershop singing was pretty much a male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Going for the Bird | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood Goes on the Wagon | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...Vanity Fair, the two women say they are friends, not rivals. Still, the talk grew louder earlier this year, when Wintour's controversial makeover of House & Garden (which she renamed HG) hit the newsstands. Aghast at a number of similarities to Vanity Fair -- particularly the emphasis on celebrities -- one wag dubbed HG "Vanity Fair with chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Dynamic Duo at Conde Nast | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Wary Post veterans remember when the Daily News targeted the same readership with a magazine-style Tonight edition in the early 1980s -- and almost went under. Still, after facing the paper's demise only a few months ago, the staff is inured to shifting fortunes. Typically, one wag has even come up with the perfect Post headline for the latest turnabout: AMSTERDAMERUNG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Now She's Queen for a Daily | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...southern town of Kalamata. Within days press reports claimed that Papandreou had spent that weekend on a yacht , in the Aegean with Liani. Three weeks ago, the first picture of Papandreou and Liani as a couple appeared on the cover of the normally progovernment monthly Eikones. As tongues wag louder, the Prime Minister is maintaining a stony silence about the affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Papandreou's Hart Attack | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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