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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...someone, "Boy, you look great! Did you get a nose job?" Go up to the pre-laws, "I'm sure you can improve on your 41 LSAT if you take Stanley Kaplan. It does wonders for people in your category." Go up to anyone you know, "Hey Carl, how are you? Sorry, Bill, right...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...have been soldiering with this lost patrol since we were kids: the gruff but caring sergeant, preternaturally wise in the ways of the enemy and the equally hostile terrain; the street wisecracking kid; the slow-drawling bumpkin; a man called Hammer and another called Pretty Boy. And, of course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Unseen Star | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...came Crowley. And boy, did she ever pull through...

Author: By Jonathan D. Unger, | Title: Batswomen, Black Bears Split | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

...President Bush will tell us that it was all a big, funny joke. Dan Quayle is really the White House newspaper boy and resident milkman...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Golfer's Worst Nightmare | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

Galina Boyko, principal of School No. 32 in Moscow, was teaching Russian literature to a class of 13-year-olds when a boy shot his hand into the air and asked about man's need for religion. Boyko, a 32-year veteran of the classroom, was understandably startled: religion has long been taboo in Soviet schools. But instead of avoiding the issue, she led her students through a 30- minute debate on the universal search for faith. "Before school reform, parents would have come to me, frightened that religion had even come up," Boyko said. "Now no one is surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Restructuring the 3 R's | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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