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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unfaithfully Yours, Dudley Moore delivers his best comic performance to date, confirming that his bubbling talents in Arthur can sparkle even when his character doesn't guzzle champagne. Instead of playing the caricatured drunk (Arthur) or the caricatured sex conquistador (10), with Claude, Moore gives his most balanced characterization yet. Moore, an Oxford graduate degree holder in music and an accompolished jazz artist, plays the conductor comfortably and convincingly...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hilarious Marriage | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...other business, the council passed a non-binding resolution placing a 90-day moratorium on all testing of nerve gas and blistering agents within city limits. City officials have expressed concern over such testing getting out of hand ever since last fall, when the Arthur D. Little Company opened its laboratories to experiment with toxic chemicals...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Angry Parents Rekindle School Chief Controversy | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

Russell Small Euclid, Ohio Investors like Arthur Rock prove that America is still the land of opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...names of women whose unlisted phone numbers they have lost; the air around the Manhattan Bridge filled with the falling bodies of suicidal lovers; a service that rents cardboard cutouts of celebrities to fill up the room when a hopeless bachelor tries to give a party. A pity Director Arthur Hiller could not sustain such a high level of lunacy throughout this adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's pop-classic meditation on how urban realities undermine our urbane fantasies. If he had, unlikely adjectives like Felliniesque might now be accreting to The Lonely Guy. But half the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...added that Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a former president of the American Jewish Congress, wrote to Dean Rosovsky that "This holiday is a particularly auspicious time to celebrate educational achievement, and it is very consistent with Talmudic Law for a Jew to attend Harvard Commencement on that...

Author: By John H. Tate iii, | Title: Students Petition President Bok To Reschedule Commencement | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

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