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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed Uncle Duke (Gary Beach) from "turning our commune into a flophouse for dopeheads and burnouts"? These problems, and the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soon to Be a Minor Sitcom | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...seamy life depicted in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) would unnerve and embarrass his parents, so he told his agent that he did not want the book published under his own name: "As a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc. is P.S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favor George Orwell." George, the patron saint of England, plus Orwell, a river that Eric Blair had known when young: the choice suggested the buried patriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Year Is Almost Here | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...magazine runs high-society gossip (a few pieces on the Von Bulow trial), unusual "living on the edge" tales (one about a transexual Jewish American Princess), and voyeuristic features (a look at the behind-the-scenes goings on during the recent Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton play Private Lives.) But the magazine's contributing editors more often than not elevate the topics they address...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Citizen Murdoch | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...seemed determined to stay in power. It remains to be seen whether he can continue to be in control. As one diplomat puts it, "At the moment the situation is still retrievable, but it will not be that way for much longer." -By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/ Manila

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Running Wild in the Streets | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...taking? How did he breach the heavy airport security? A five-member commission appointed by Marcos will begin looking for answers this week. It was a measure of the President's credibility that few Filipinos expected anything to come of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Sandra Burton and Nelly Sindayen/ Manila

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Mass Requiem in Manila | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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