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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it has a mission. This is to glorify the life of the Los Angeles beat poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote the semi-autobiographical script. Now Bukowski has a terrific literati-on-the-skids persona; more downwardly mobile than Kerouac or Burroughs, more degenerate than Ginsberg. He came of age as a writer in the same kind of desolate, marginal, flophouse and seedy bar milieu that Schroeder evokes so effectively in the film. And he's a fine writer--the problem is that you'd never know it from the script, which struck me as the work of a pretentious...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Bummed Out | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...tour guide, age 18, came here as a little girl. I asked if she was still in school. No, she said she finished when she was 16 and completed her Heritage USA home study packet. She intends to move out of Heritage USA to start her own ministry...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Plastic Armor of God | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...late 1970 s there was a sharp decrease in the number of school-age children--so many schools were closed and converted into condominums," Kimball said. "But we now face a major increase in the number of school-age children in the next decade," she said...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Murphy Prepares State for Year 2000 | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...American Express Gold Cards. These are the yuppies, the generation of boastful baby boomers who had never before known a bear market. But last week's wild market gyrations, coming on top of recent layoffs on Wall Street, have left them breathless. "All of a sudden, people in my age group have come of age," says Ian Wiener, 26, a portfolio manager for Clemente Capital, a Manhattan money-management firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Snapped by Their Own Suspenders Ouch! | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...early '60s can forget the impact of Stella's first "minimalist" works, the black-stripe paintings, done when he was in his 20s and just out of Princeton. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started out polemical and bare, but has complicated his art to the point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find El Dorado, opens with a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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