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Article: That '70s candidate: Jimmy Carter with helmet hair.(Elizabeth Dole)
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- Reason
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- June 1, 1999
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The decade of the 1970s is like a low-grade virus: Whenever we think we're over it, the symptoms return. This past season, the Fox network launched That '70s Show, a sitcom whose plots revolve around such things as Todd Rundgren concerts. At every wedding reception I've attended lately, they've played "YMCA," triggering that obligatory dance where you're supposed to mime the letters. (I always do it wrong, and end up looking like Koko the sign-language gorilla.) Even flare pants are back.
And Jimmy Carter is running for president again - only this time, his name is Elizabeth Dole.
It stands to reason. In Watergate's wake, people wanted the most ...