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...hours a day, often sacrificing personal plans so the line can work together. As a group they attend a twirling camp for a week to perfect their struts and tosses. Following Labor Day they work on their half-time programs after school for two hours each day. "Sometimes my boyfriend wants to go for a Coke and he can't understand that I just have to go twirl," Robin Coburn moans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Twirling to Beat the Band | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...this." "My Great-Aunt Alicia would turn in her grave if I didn't" is a common explanation. A few are cheerful--"This should be a blast"; most are; resigned. Only one fails to see the point in any of it. "It's so silly--my boyfriend's already asked me if he could ask me to marry him someday...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Pretty Maids All in a Row | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...unmarried couple is everywhere. How to handle the linguistic problem of what to call the person with whom one's daughter lives? "Lover" is too archaically lubricious by a shade or two. "Roommate" sounds like a freshman dorm. "Bedmate" is too sexually specific, but "friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed a rather sweet technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...base...a and b at the corner of Bow and Mass Ave." O'Hare cruises up Bow St. It's Fathers Six, again. Three Cambridge and four Harvard cruisers are already outside, lights flashing. A crowd collects. A woman, clouded by the Saturday night V.O.'s, grabs her boyfriend and cries. In the midst of the sea of navy jackets, a 20-year-old with blood all over his shirt holds his hand against an eye. Harvard police, equipped with first aid, attempt to help him. Cambridge calls an ambulance. He staggers away...he wants no part of it. Harvard...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: No Molotovs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...love with a shleppy Macy's salesman (Jeff Bridges) she spots across a crowded store. Minutes later, the heroine decides to abandon her husband for this nearly complete stranger - only to discover that Hubby has just been murdered. Rather than call the police, she and her new boyfriend set out to solve the case themselves. What follows is a series of progressively more improbable events. To buy this film's plot, it isn't enough to suspend disbelief; you have to submit to a lobotomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Angel in Distress | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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