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...play is the story of Kenneth Talley Jr. (Tim Ashford), an overeducated homosexual who lost his legs in Vietnam. He lives on the Talley family farm near Lebanon, Mo., with his lover, Gardener Jed (Josh Frost). It's Independence Day, 1977 and Ken is holding a reunion of sorts with his aunt, his sister and her illegitmate child, and two old friends...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

Julia Blum's Gwen, wife of Ken's childhood friend John, is an unlikely combination '60s burn-out/Valley Girl who giggles a lot. Ashford is cynical as Ken, but little else. The character of Jed remains to be written. His few lines merely supply the plants hanging from the Old Library's rafters with an occasional dose of carbon dioxide, which is essential to their well-being...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias to hold the world record in a multiple-discipline event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Less Than Goodwill Games | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

They are armful enough to keep their moms running, even if the moms were not already so inclined. Raina Ashley Washington, 13 months, is the daughter of Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Evelyn Ashford and her husband, Basketball Coach Ray Washington. Ashley Lynn Slaney, one month, belongs to Olympic Middle Distance Runner Mary Decker Slaney and her discus-thrower husband Richard. The tiny two were born on the same day, May 30, and when the two mothers and daughters got together in Eugene, Ore., where Slaney lives, she found the babies even shared the same name. "Both are very strong babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 7, 1986 | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...seems very inappropriate to invite someone like Smith who is known for the oppression of human beings," said C. Ashford Baker from Goucher College in Towson, Md., one of the protesters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delegates to Model U.N. Protest Ian Smith's Speech | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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