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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be DONE? | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...grateful for a jungle or a farm or anything." His first job was in a car wash, and next he worked for a jewelry manufacturer. In 1980 he founded Cao Enterprises, which makes ersatz American Indian baubles, and soon put his former boss out of business. Cao drives a Cadillac Fleetwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The New Ellis Island | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...suppose I should employ the old mother-in-law joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Charmer and a Pro | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz, who plays my mother in the play, if I should buy it, and she said: 'Why not?' I really love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twenty-One, Going on 15 (or 50) | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...nominated. But this injustice should come as no surprise; it's typical of a town that thrives on slop-pop writers like Goldman and gossipy exposes like Adventures. It merely reinforces what Goldman quickly noticed his first day in Hollywood, riding through its glossy hills in his shiny, embarrassing Cadillac: People are strange out there...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Behind the Glitter | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

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