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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wacker agreed that the cold is often spread by students who bring from home local strains of the virus. While they may have aquired particular immunity to these regional forms of the cold, students from other areas have not, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Common Cold Strikes Campus; Students See Uncommon Causes | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...Starring Lots of Actors," the opening credits of this Son of Kentucky Fried Movie announce. Also five directors (including Joe Dante and John Landis) and two TV-bred writers (Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland) itching to bring skitcom to the big screen. Some episodes offer social satire, such as one starring Griffin Dunne as an impish obstetrician who insists that his painted fist is a woman's newborn baby ("Wanna breast-feed him?"). But most find plenty of fun at show biz's expense. Movies: Amazon Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kentucky Fried Sequel | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...prospect of pistol-packing hordes at shopping malls, sporting events and even Disney World has inspired a movement to tighten the loophole before it takes effect. "We want to bring Florida into the 1990s, not the 1890s," says State Attorney General Robert Butterworth, who is spearheading the effort. He has asked Governor Bob Martinez to consider an amendment to the bill during a special legislative session this week. But the Governor has decided to keep the gun bill off the agenda, and it is unlikely legislators will vote to change their handiwork during the regular legislative session in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pistol Packers | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...night stand is discovered. That the two principals are ostensibly mature professionals, not adolescent airheads, gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives. Men will suddenly, squirmingly, recall times when they barely escaped the consequences of their caprices. Women have been seen emerging from this movie wearing secret smiles. Their surrogate may be a nut case, but she is also a familiar case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The War Between the Mates | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Cultural divisions among Anglos and Latins have also prompted bumper-sticker humor. WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? is a popular example. Allman gets his kick when North meets South, as in the alliance of David Kennedy, Miami's former Anglo mayor, and Rosario Arguelles, an exiled Havana debutante who married Kennedy in 1984 and was elected to the city commission the following year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urban Razzle, Fatal Glamour | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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