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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recipe for a movie star. But if Farmer was a blessed presence in Samuel Goldwyn's Come and Get It and a dozen B pictures, her life was one roiling curse. She was part of a movie age that glorified the strong-willed woman and punished the ac tresses who incarnated them. Hepburn, Davis, De Havilland were all mistreated by moguls who wanted their stars to behave like little women. Farmer was as willful as any of them-and far more troubled. The pressure drove her from the screen. It may have driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Morning Comes for Frances | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

Certainly they are the easiest to get on the radio-"AC" radio, that is, music biz vernacular for "adult contemporary" stations, whose regimented play lists have turned Fogerty's song for everyone into ditties for anyone. On the '60s Top 40 radio, it was possible to hear Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, the Beatles, the Four Tops and Bob Dylan all in the space of an hour. Nowadays, says Neil Bogart, president of Boardwalk Entertainment Co., "they play music for the 14-to-18 audience, the 30-to-35, the 50-to-60, or for white, black, chicano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Hits the Hard Place | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

George Webster said at the conference that Eastern Airlines has been slow to provide ac- curate passenger lists for the police investigation, but Chafin said he expects several more lists within the next two or three days...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Parents Post Reward in Webster Case | 1/20/1982 | See Source »

...kept searching for guys with pointed ears, no necks and crew haircuts," Steven son says, "but all we ever seemed to find were nice-looking, well-mannered kids who were fun on the bus." Northwestern alum ni are more likely to be ac tors (Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty) than pro football players (only two are in the N.F.L. now: Pete Shaw of San Diego and Jack Rudnay of Kansas City). When Stevenson was cast as Colonel Henry Blake in the television show M*A*S*H, a staple of his wardrobe was to be a purple Northwestern sweater with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...build them." Some 30 other manufacturers have rushed more than 50 competing models onto the market, ranging from $60 to $300. Some units, like the KLH Solo and Toshiba KT-52, have FM stereo radios, and most accept such accessories as additional headphones, microphones for direct recording and AC adapters. Sony, which devotes an entire Tokyo factory to the units' production, this year expects to double its 1980 U.S. sales of a million of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Great Way to Snub the World | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

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