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...abusive towards women and children," Boudreau said of the film's star, Andrew Dice Clay. A bit further out of his sons' hearing range, however, he had a confession to make...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Andrew Dice Clay? | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Whose House Is This Anyway? | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...regain from Steffi Graf. They / stayed away because the slow brick-dust surface in Paris rewards tactics that are entirely different from what works on the fast and often bumpy grass at Wimbledon. With only two weeks between the tournaments, there was too little time to shift gears. Clay-court players typically stay back near the baseline and trade shots until an opponent makes an error. Grass-court players rush the net and smash unplayable returns low along the sidelines. On clay there is always one more chance to win the point; on grass it's now or never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking Memories At Wimbledon | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...base was crippled when New York's financial and real estate markets went dry. The 1987 stock-market crash stole the magazine's indispensable asset: high-flying Wall Street targets to shoot down. The magazine also lost some of its edge when founding editor Jane Amsterdam was replaced by Clay Felker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Big Shake-Out Begins | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Boston Globe political cartoonist Paul Szep calls him the Andrew Dice Clay of Massachusetts politics. Columnist George Will says he is the most interesting candidate in America this year. The specter of the 63-year-old bantam president of Boston University occupying the Governor's office terrifies many Bay State residents. But it exhilarates others, who believe a humorless political outsider performing triage on moribund state government can restore it to fiscal health. Either way, John Silber, who on June 2 ensured his place on the ballot for Massachusetts' September primary, makes incredible theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mouth of Massachusetts: John Silber | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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