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- <title>
- July 08, 1991: Amazing Comebacks
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 9
- Amazing Comebacks
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> All in the Family.
- </p>
- <p> Surrounded by mind-numbing network fare, the revival of
- Archie Bunker's antics has scored high in the ratings.
- </p>
- <p> Newark.
- </p>
- <p> A national survey proclaimed the poor man's Philadelphia
- as "most livable city" in the U.S.
- </p>
- <p> St. Petersburg, U.S.S.R.
- </p>
- <p> If the townspeople have their way, the name returns for
- the first time since 1914.
- </p>
- <p> Saddam Hussein.
- </p>
- <p> Mr. Worse Than Hitler, 1990, is sitting pretty in Baghdad.
- Who won the war, anyway?
- </p>
- <p> Goatees.
- </p>
- <p> Maynard G. Krebs' 1950s beatnik look is once again a sign
- of absolute cool.
- </p>
- <p> Video Discs.
- </p>
- <p> After doing time with Betamax on technology's skid row,
- the CD's first cousin is enjoying a sales boom.
- </p>
- <p> Rayon.
- </p>
- <p> Once dismissed as sleaze pretending to be silk, the slinky
- synthetic is coming on strong in the latest collections.
- </p>
- <p> Wisdom Teeth.
- </p>
- <p> Have the maligned molars taken a bum rap all these years?
- Now many dentists are leaving them unpulled.
- </p>
- <p> John Connally.
- </p>
- <p> The former Texas Governor got Big Rich, then went Big
- Broke. Now he's back as head of the state's task force on
- revenue.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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