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Dates: during 1980-1989
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You expect nothing new in a Schwarzenegger movie, and he usually delivers. Take Red Heat's final runaway-bus chase . . . well, action-movie finales are always boring; that's the time to get the popcorn. But there are pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arnold Wry RED HEAT | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Jonathan Noel, 53, has been a bank guard in Paris for some 30 years. He imagines that by the time he retires, he will "assuredly be the one person in all Paris -- perhaps even in all France -- who had stood the longest time in just one place." This suits Jonathan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends People Like Us | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

"I have been a man of crisis, a man of battle, a fighting man. Now God has given me this one test more." With those words, a tearful Jose Napoleon Duarte bade farewell to friends, boarded a U.S. military transport and lifted off last week from San Salvador's Ilopango...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Stricken President, Ailing Country | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Eight performances a week, lessons, and recording sessions leave little free time. But the cast managed to squeeze in a Sunday-evening trip to Staten Island for a birthday party at the math teacher's home. On the ferry, amid the hubbub, Dumisani Dlamini, who plays Crocodile, a high-stepping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Children of Apartheid Meet Broadway | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

The Fay Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 to a graduating senior who "during her whole course by her scholarship, conduct, and character has given evidence of the greatest promise," according to the award's charter. The winner receives a LatinDiploma and a stipend of nearly $3000.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Horner Awards Fay Prize To Philosophy Student | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

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