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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...been hard to ignore, even if you are not a viewer. Fans break appointments and rush home for each Thursday-night episode, then talk about little else at the office water cooler the next morning. Magazines print charts detailing the convoluted relationships among the show's three-dozen- plus characters. Quirky scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into...
That was 16 months ago. Today Bush is surfing along at 60%-plus public- approval ratings, and much of the credit falls to Sununu. His White House displays almost none of the backbiting and leaking that roiled the Reagan Administration. He adroitly appeases fellow right-wing Republicans who have never much trusted Bush. On the other flank, Sununu exuberantly baits environmentalists and others into blaming him, rather than the President, when the Administration backslides from Bush's gauzy promises. Though he possesses no more "vision" than Bush does, Sununu has substituted a quiet and canny strategy to attain the President...
...offered to settle for $200,000. Bank officers wondered whether he might be harboring far more cash. They called in Pankau, who combed public records and found that the developer had come into a big inheritance. When confronted, the businessman agreed to pay his full $2 million debt plus $500,000 interest...
...guns include Tom Cruise, who reportedly will earn some $9 million for playing a race-car driver and co-producing Paramount's Days of Thunder. For reprising his role as Nick Nolte's streetwise sidekick in Another 48 Hrs., Eddie Murphy will take home at least $8 million, plus a share of the film's revenues. Arnold Schwarzenegger can count on $10 million for starring in Total Recall, a $50 million-plus sci-fi picture filmed by Los Angeles-based Carolco and distributed by Tri-Star...
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