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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead in a flattened auto. Then he heard "one little whimper" from the backseat. Pinned beneath a slab of concrete and the body of his mother was Julio Berumen, 6. His less seriously injured sister, Cathy, 8, also lay there. For nearly an hour, Wallace struggled to free the boy. Once he felt movement. "But it turned out it was just the clothing sliding from his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Cathy loose. Then doctors who had rushed to the scene from Oakland hospitals made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Jean-Jacques Annaud's captivating fable comes to the U.S. after earning a phenomenal $100 million in Europe. -- Fat Man and Little Boy: Paul Newman drops a well-meaning bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page:OCTOBER 30, 1989 Vol. 134, No. 18 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

When Wooster tells the story about how he and his former fiancee, Florence Cray, try to steal his uncle Willoughby's manuscript and are foiled by his uncle and Edwin, the boy scout, the audience engages in non-stop laughter. Wooster's description of his uncle trying to make him confess is particularly hilarious. Wooster says: "It was most disgusting spectacle--this white-haired man who should have been thinking of the hereafter stood there lying like an actor...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Pass the Butler | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

Wooster's rendition of "Sonny Boy," accompanied with tap dancing, was done with enough finesse to warrant a snicker, but by the time he started into "Every Cloud Has a Silver lining," the snicker had faded to a grunt. Duke builds up an expectation for greatness that is just not realized. The rest of the play moves at such a schizophrenic pace that this sluggish type of ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Pass the Butler | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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