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...license, the fledgling motorist must take a state-run driver's education course that lasts 180 hours, including 32 hours behind the wheel; truck and taxi drivers must endure 660 hours of instruction. The country's premier car buff is none other than Leonid Brezhnev; he is the proud owner of ten snazzy foreign models, all gifts from heads of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Of Aeroflot, Volgas and the Flu | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly he tried to live normally: he liked Shakespeare, played the electric guitar and became a sci-fi buff; at a Star Trek convention, which he attended clad in an astronaut-type pressure suit, he was delighted to be mistaken for just another imaginatively attired Trekkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 9, 1980 | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

Michelle D. Healy, Associate Sports Editor, Trivia Buff--UCLA...

Author: By B.s. Eliot, | Title: Know Your Winter Sports, Sports: | 3/18/1980 | See Source »

...there is no curtain call. Sellars denies his actors a final chance to escape the machinery of his production, frustrates our expectations one last time. He has destroyed the Lear we came to see and offered nothing tangible in its stead. It took guts. It failed. The theater buff will discover the dangers of excess. The theater-goer will learn the truth of Edgar's maxim: "The worst is not so long as we can say, 'This is the worst...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...merely put them in tanning booths. One minute under the lamps is said to equal an hour in the summer sun; sometimes ten visits are needed before the "sun worshiper" starts sporting that January-in-Acapulco look. Customers may wear a bathing suit or take their rays in the buff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sun Salons | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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