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...that she can make Artie famous. Her hopes center on the 'legendary Billy Einhorn (Andrew Diedterich), Artie's boyhood friend turned Hollywood director. Despite his protests that "I'm too old to be a young talent," Artie is willing to let Bunny create a fantasy world in which they abandon Bananas and Queens for California...

Author: By Lois Leveen, | Title: Sleek House | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...begins to shine again in Cambridge, Harvard athletes begin to abandon the confines of Hemenway Gymnasium, Blodgett Pool and Briggs Cage for the fresh smell of grass at Soliders Field...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Sun Shining on Squash | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore." After a reading of Psalm 51, David's masterpiece of poetic contrition, the extraordinary performance was over. Parishioners wept with abandon, some of them prostrate on the floor. Frances and Jimmy's friends hugged him and led him away. Shortly afterward the preacher disappeared into his luxurious 14-acre estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...seeking to craft a majority, Democrats were faced with challenges from at least two sides. They had to win the votes of party moderates who were reluctant to totally abandon the rebels, believing that they provide useful pressure to keep the Sandinistas bargaining in good faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Defeats Nicaraguan Aid Package | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...many cases the parent may be living in the same town -- or the same house. Already, says Fordham's Marjorie Cantor, former president of the Gerontological Society, "the family is the major source of support for the elderly. And there is no indication in the future that families will abandon them." The notion of an age war rings false with many experts who work with both the elderly and their children. "Adult children spend a lot of time caring; they make a lot of personal sacrifices," says Dr. Carl Eisdorfer of the University of Miami. The support goes both ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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