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First thought, on looking at the billboard: nice idea; angry, bustling little Danny DeVito and cool, self-ironical, hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger as twins. Should be funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double The Pleasure | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Richard Thompson, an Irish folksinger whose album "Amnesia" is listed among the Billboard top 100, will be performing two shows tomorrow night at Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...island-inclined, jazz-inflected pop that is giddy and good-natured enough to turn a forced march into a dance contest. Simple Pleasures, the album on which Happy appears, has already sold close to 1.5 million copies in the U.S., and is occupying impressive territory on the Billboard album charts: No. 5 and climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Dukakis has set up headquarters in the luxurious Hyatt Regency Hotel, but his Massachusetts delegates are housed in the Holiday Inn, where the billboard proudly notes the presence of "President Dukakis's" homestate supporters...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Of Democratic Party Protests, Politics and Partying | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...visiting grandparents, happily exclaiming, "Come here, sientate!" Her bemused grandfather, who does not speak Spanish, nevertheless knows she is asking him to sit down. A Miami personnel officer understands what a job applicant means when he says, "Quiero un part time." Nor do drivers miss a beat reading a billboard alongside a Los Angeles street advertising CERVEZA -- SIX-PACK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: Spanglish Spoken Here | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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