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...have the charisma that the countrywas looking for in the '80s," said Marcucci, thecampaign volunteer. "[But now] I think people arelooking for someone who can do something...
...those women who wailed "How could she do it?" when Gloria Steinem, the world's most famous feminist, began keeping company with demibillionaire real estate developer and aspiring journalist Mort Zuckerman in the late '80s, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (Little, Brown; 377 pages; $22.95) will serve as belated explanation...
...80s gave rise to an even more insidious phenomenon: cartoon shows based on popular toys. Charren sought to ban programs like G.I. Joe and My Little Pony as little more than program-length commercials. Most have since expired from low ratings, but a fresh wave may be on the way: several new shows in development feature snack-food characters like Chester Cheetah, who hawks Cheetos. "It's nauseating," says Charren. "Having turned all the toys into programs in the '80s, now they're going to turn all the logos into programs...
...That meant, in practical terms, building a whole array of conventional and covert task forces, and client regimes and proxies in the less developed parts of the world. Under Kennedy, the defense budget soared by $17 billion, the single largest peacetime increase until Reagan went goofy in the early '80s...
...fled Dallas. It seems he couldn't really escape -- Nov. 22 continued to haunt him. The FBI followed him to Michigan and questioned him repeatedly; he had to go back to Dallas for Ruby's trial; he never found the wife he'd lost. And then in the early '80s, just when his life seemed to have settled down, renewed interest in the J.F.K. case made his name an object of speculation again: it appeared in a book on the organized-crime connections to Ruby and the assassination. His new wife read the book and began to get a little...