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Dates: during 1980-1989
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X: More Fun in the New World (Elektra). The New Wave rolls on: if William S. Burroughs fronted a garage band, it would sound like this.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: THE BEST OF 1983: Music | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

But more jazzy things are in store, as seen in some of AT&T's sci-fi television ads. Those stress the more glamorous unregulated activities of information systems for business-services like teleconferencing and data processing. In those areas AT&T now will be free to square off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Small customers were once reluctant to sue big manufacturers, but that is no longer true. In 1980 Quality Books Co. of Northbrook, Ill., a publisher and wholesaler, took out an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to ask if anyone was experiencing the problems it was having with a Burroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Getting Rid of the Bugs | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

In Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Ahead of the Class | 7/22/1983 | See Source »

And similarly throughout this "romantic comedy," the humor is very much divorced from the romance--a division that works to enhance both elements of the film. The tension between his boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Ahead of the Class | 7/22/1983 | See Source »

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