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Bill Cosby plays an overworked widower on the brink of a promotion that will finally ensure a secure future for his children. Right before everything is finalized, though, he dies in a freak accident, his house mortgaged to the hilt and his family virtually destitute...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ghostdad Will Have You Die Laughing | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

Could the omens have been any more promising? Henderson had struck gold twice for the Red Sox, saving them from the brink of defeat, and then bringing them within one strike of the ultimate victory. If the team couldn't win then, how could they ever be expected...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Sox Angst Heats Up Yet Again | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...whole, Cohen will be remembered as the person who brought Perspective from the brink of a financial abyss to fiscal solidity without compromising the magazine's liberal ideals. But he has also made his presence felt in the paper's editorial content. As a prominent member of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), a group formed to protest discrimination at the nine all-male final Clubs, he contributed to Perspective's shift toward an activist slant...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Maintaining a Healthy Perspective | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...Long and Happy Life, the elegant North Carolina novelist and poet has been examining the eternal puzzle of families as they love and hurt one another, come together and burst apart. The unlucky ones are beset by betrayal and murder and suicide. The lucky ones are brought to the brink of destruction but through grace and common sense find a way to live in the universe and with each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Prayer for Raphael Noren | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Those of you on the brink of conversion may still harbor some reservations because of allegations about widespread Satanism in the heavy metal world. The controversy seems to surface again and again, deterring even the most open-minded from trying metal...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: For God, for Country, And for Metal... | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

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