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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boy vs. the Dirty Digger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

On the other side of the continent, Kalif Beacon, 45, has set up his Temple of the Rainbow Food Kitchen in an empty lot on Manhattan's run-down Lower East Side. Beacon, who is homeless himself and wears a stovepipe hat that makes him look like a character out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Comfort for the Homeless | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Lloyd Webber was on his own in his next project, an audacious attempt to set T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to music. He turned to the innovative director Trevor Nunn and the brilliant designer John Napier to transform his plotless feline frolic into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Talk about your comebacks. This character was a star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daffy's Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Ugolin is a tribute to Barri's ability as a director. He has turned an apparently handsome actor into a rat-faced, bucktoothed farmer. And Auteuil's appearance isn't the only thing that makes his character seem real. As he galumphs across the screen, utters phrases whose humor he...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Manon Around the House | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

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