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...Samantha Baker's 16th birthday, but her preoccupied parents have forgotten it. Sam (Ringwald) is a sophomore, in strangulated love with a dishy senior (Michael Schoeffling) and shadowed by a crypto-hip freshman called the Geek (Anthony Michael Hall), who, in one of his more winsome moments, asks Sam if he can borrow her underpants. The plot, which will be reprised in Pretty in Pink, is familiar from schlock immemorial, but Hughes' acute ear for teen talk makes it fresh and funny. Listen to Sam and her girlfriend Randy (Liane Curtis) wax ironic on every girl's dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Coincidentally, Viola's father, Frank Sr., was at Fenway last night celebrating a birthday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BoSox Explode, 17-7 | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

...main architects of the cover stories admit that they saw themselves all too often in much of the reporting that poured in from around the country. Senior Editor Robert T. Zintl, 38, conceived the idea of commemorating the 40th birthday of the first wave of Baby Boomers, enabling TIME staffers to pull together the disparate elements of the Baby Boom experience, from Hula- Hoops to the Viet Nam War, from jogging to two-income families. Says Zintl: "To me, the central issue was how these 'aging children,' as Songwriter Joni Mitchell once called us, would at last face the responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...Kabul in December 1979, was denied a private audience by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The following month Karmal abruptly disappeared from view, even failing to show up at his country's Revolutionary Day parade--the equivalent, noted a Western diplomat in Islamabad, of "staying away from one's own birthday party." Meanwhile, the Soviet newspaper Pravda ran a front-page story attacking Karmal's failure to build a stable base of support for his Communist regime. Rumors had it that the Afghan chieftain was visiting the Soviet Union for treatment of a lung problem or leukemia. But many observers suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: an Abrupt Shuffle of Puppets | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...William Schuman, George Rochberg and Krzysztof Penderecki, Stern has had a privileged view of modern musical history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Making the Strings Sing Again | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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