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...dozen trips to Philadelphia to see her red-haired, blue-eyed daughter, but financial constraints and marital problems kept her in Indiana much of the time. On her most recent four-day visit in April, Joey spent time holding Angela, blowing her kisses and trying to teach her to wink. Angela's father Kenny saw his child only twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brief Life of Angela Lakeberg | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...with envelopes of cash. "It was a common practice in those days for a lobbyist to come to a member of Congress and hand him an envelope and say, 'Here, this is for your campaign,' says former Representative Rod Chandler, a Washington Republican. "It was a nod-and-a-wink thing. 'If you use it on your campaign, fine. If not, that's up to you.' Nothing even approaching that happens anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloom Under the Dome | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...that wildlife-survey regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink and a snicker, "our wildlife-biologist study trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redwoods: The Last Stand | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage on an overheated highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Lone Rangers Ride Again | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Wink and a Smile, "Sleepless in Seattle"--Cheesy in Los Angeles...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: OpArt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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