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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promise on the horizon. Just ask two masters he has apprenticed with: Dustin Hoffman, the decade's most lauded actor, and Paul Newman, the last golden exemplar of Hollywood star quality. "There's no sense of a crest in Tom," says Hoffman, who won an Oscar as Cruise's brother in Rain Man. "His talent is young, his body is young, his spirit is young. He's a Christmas tree -- he's lit from head to toe." Newman, who played Cruise's mentor in The Color of Money, considers the young actor's competitors and says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Mapother home was now largely a tight sorority in which Tom served as father, brother and friend. "Having grown up with women, I trust and believe them more than men," he says. "I love women. I love the way they smell." Today Cruise is just as close to Mary Lee and his sisters, who are frequent visitors to his sets. This month in Charlotte, when Lee Anne's two-year-old was injured in a hotel door, Tom rushed to the rescue, stayed with the child as the doctors stitched the wound, jollying him in recovery, being a great uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

American readers know Rezzori mainly for two richly convoluted memory novels of Europe before and after World War II, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1981) and The Death of My Brother Abel (1985). The Snows of Yesteryear looks back before their time frame, to the childhood and, implicitly, the formation of a writer. It leads into a world now irretrievably lost, its values blown away by World War I and its fortunes wrecked by the inflationary '20s -- "For the class to which my parents belonged . . . a fall into chaos, into impotence and deprivation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Into Chaos | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...When his brother wasn't out on the floor, Dana still had some strange moments. Trying to make a save, he went crashing into the CCSU Pep Band, which was inexplicably seated behind the baseline. Later, the normally sure-handed point guard had a breakaway but somehow lost control of the ball off his dribble...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Rullman Nabs Rookie Honors | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...Bush stood before the quieted planes and crews and talked about his view of war. "There's a painting in the White House, upstairs in the little office. It pictures Lincoln with two generals and an admiral meeting on a boat near the end of a war that pitted brother against brother. Outside the battle rages. And yet what we see in the distance is a rainbow, symbol of hope, of the passing storm. The painting's name? The Peacemakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Presidency: Talk of Peace, Tools of War | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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