Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the U.S. has a big stake in the battle in Colombia, it cannot do much besides send materiel and cheer for Barco. Washington's antidrug policy is moving away from interdiction of supply to cutting down demand at home. Bush's program will propose shifting funds to expanded drug-education and -treatment programs, and stiffer penalties for casual users. Such an emphasis on curtailing the U.S. appetite for cocaine and other drugs is fine by the Colombians. As President Barco told TIME, "Every time a North American youngster pays for his vice in the streets of New York, Miami...
...atmosphere at TriBeCa will be a far cry from that of the big studios. "We're more relaxed," says Jane Rosenthal, a CBS and Walt Disney veteran hired by De Niro as his executive vice president. "My two dogs come to work with me." There will also be some indulgences at the film center. One will be the TriBeCa Bar and Grill, a restaurant that De Niro is opening with financial investments from such pals as Sean Penn, Bill Murray and Mikhail Baryshnikov. De Niro's new Hollywood-on-the-Hudson may be an upstart, but it will not suffer...
...their elders, or, even better, turns them right off. "The sales today are going with hard rock," says Kal Rudman, publisher of Friday Morning Quarterback, an industry newsletter. "Heavy metal is doing well with sales and at concerts in the 14-to-18 age range. Rap is extremely big but is quite racial. That's doesn't mean white kids aren't into it, but it's pretty well segregated...
...Call should fit right in, finally. They have been cult favorites for about ten years now, but the title track of the new album is % getting some wide play on the radio. "We shouldn't waste rock 'n' roll," Been says. "Rock should be looking at some of the big questions...
...British sent all kinds of boats. Big ones, little ones, paddle steamers, yachts, everything. It was gorgeous weather, hot and beautiful. Guys were lying on the dunes, shirts off, watching the combat between the British and German fighters. When they'd see a German fighter go down, they'd applaud...