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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meaningful and relevant, because there's just not enough time. Time to think seriously is hard to come by. I have been working all this past week in Los Angeles on a new television pilot for a prime-time series. I left the taping at 4 o'clock this morning your time, chartered a plane and flew all morning to get here by 10. So I just want to tell you, if I fall asleep, don't worry, don't panic and don't disturb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, A Few Words from the Wise | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...Ueno who surprises many--with her gentleness as well as her academic and scholarly prowess. Choquette describes her as "endearing," McKinsey as "poised and mature," and Peterson as the type of person who "goes out of her way to be polite and helpful." A living alarm clock who helped her roommate make it to House crew practice all through spring semester, this quiet studious soul is sure to carry her confident and insatiable inquistitiveness into whatever she endeavors...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: For She's a Jolly Good Fellow | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Kelly's arrival from Logan Airport was delayed, and the crowd on Mass. Ave. grew antsy. It also grew large. As the clock ticked on, the number of students milling about the Square waiting for Kelly multiplied from about...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Looking Back 35 Years: The 'Possum Caused a Riot | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

Occasionally Barron creates whole lint rooms, or "conceptual environmentals," or simply, as she often puts it, installations. One of the most intriguing was called Six o'Clock News. Its inspiration: "I would visit my parents, and they would be watching the news, not knowing what was going on, just sitting there with the TV, lost." It is an 18-ft. by 27-ft. room -- in all, enough lint to fill a U-Haul van, ceiling to floor, which it does. It is like one of those Koren cartoons in The New Yorker -- everything and everybody is fuzzy -- except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Lint Is Art | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...California's more than 58,000 parolees between 1984 and 1986 were controversial enough to be placed in counties other than their own. Gore said Singleton would be moved "if the need arises," a condition to be determined by Singleton's parole agents, who guard him around the clock. Meanwhile, local officials are trying a last-ditch legal maneuver to send him packing. Says County Supervisor Tom Powers: "My wife and I were out walking the other night, and she points to some guy and says, 'Doesn't that person look like Singleton?' " A retired merchant seaman, Singleton could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not In My Town: No one wants a paroled rapist | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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