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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Henry Hathaway, 86, reliable Hollywood action-movie director who learned the trade from prop boy up and from 1932 crafted more than 60 rousing adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 25, 1985 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...when the young singles and couples moved on to other cities or, more likely, the suburbs, to alcohol or to the angry consciousness of the Viet Nam epoch. Two decades later, a couple of nostalgic veterans of the deb-party circuit decide to revive the Snow Ball. Cooper Jones is a wearily married vice president of the real estate company founded by his grandfather; Lucy Dunbar is an irritable divorcee. In planning the dance, they lapse into a perfunctory affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations the Snow Ball | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Cooper's and Lucy's fondest hope is to reunite Jack and Kitty, once the Astaire and Rogers of their set. In keeping with the deflected dreams of the rest of the crowd, Kitty has been married three times and has become a prematurely old, discreetly tipsy Florida matriarch. Jack, who wed the girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revelations the Snow Ball | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Some actors--Robert De Niro, for example--pour themselves into a character and are all but unrecognizable from one film to another. Others, usually actors from the past like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant, pour the role into themselves. Grant could be a stumble-footed comic in pictures like Bringing Up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace or an urbane romantic hero in To Catch a Thief or North by Northwest, but no one would ever have mistaken him for anyone but Cary Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrison Ford: Stardom Time for a Bag of Bones | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...although poorly designed public buildings, spaghetti-like freeway intersections and confusing graphic gobbledygook are wasteful and ugly, little attention has been paid to the problem. Says Architect Bill N. Lacy, president of the Cooper Union art, architecture and engineering school in New York City: "The U.S. is a Fourth World country when it comes to design awareness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Toward a Handsome America | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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