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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football: It's a long, long way toFoxborough. But if you've got a car, and you don'tmind making the 45 minute drive, you can catch thePatriots--picked in many pre-season polls to winthe AFC East--in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spectator Paradise | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Ford, the experience was akin to buying a new car and then suffering a serious dent only a few days later. The No. 2 U.S. automaker began last week by announcing plans to acquire a 75% stake (price: more than $30 million) in Aston Martin Lagonda, the manufacturer of hand-assembled sports cars that carry an average price tag of $130,000. While the British car company has sputtered financially, its products have long enjoyed a sterling reputation. Queen Elizabeth II gave an Aston Martin to Prince Charles for his 21st birthday, and James Bond has driven the cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: First a Deal, Then a Dent | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

LaVergne (pop. 5,500) is a decidedly rawboned blue-collar town rather than a quaint Tennessee tourist attraction. Dotted with car washes and low-rise factories, it has a work force that exceeds its population. Mayor Vester Waldron describes the place as a "bedroom community without the bedrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working for the Japanese | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...there?' " he recalls. "Now we are doing just that." Steven Soll, 38, a Los Angeles financial planner, is looking forward to having fat suctioned from under his double chin and reinserted to strengthen his jawline. "I could go out and spend $20,000 on a car to make myself feel better," he explains, "or I could spend $3,000 to change something that has always bothered me." An older, simpler method to smooth the skin involves the injection of protein collagen into scars and wrinkles. This procedure usually requires several treatments plus an annual booster. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Snip, Suction, Stretch and Truss | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...which contains nine other tunes besides I Just Can't Stop Loving You (or ten, counting a bonus tune on the CD), further compounds the confusion. Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust. The album's first video, a stinging 16-minute dramatic vamp on the title tune directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered in prime time on CBS last week and grabbed a 30 share. Set in a New York City subway station, it was in part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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