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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...royal family has never lacked for ink in the British press, especially ! in the flashier tabloids whose rival scoops are sometimes mountains built from one grain of fact. Diana, in particular, attracts headlines: over the course of her six-year marriage to Prince Charles, she has been reported pregnant countless times, has spent a king's ransom on clothes and was anorexic. Lately, however, British papers have been feasting on an unusually large banquet of negative stories about the younger royals, including once unthinkable innuendos about (gasp!) Diana's marital fidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When In Doubt, Run the Royals | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...keep the approximately 150 Commencement and reunion functions running effectively, organizers must work nearly 24 hours a day, juggling countless behind-the-scene details...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Around the Clock Operation: Setting Up for Commencement | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

TIME Senior Writer and Film Critic Richard Corliss watched his first movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, at age five in his hometown of Philadelphia. Eleven years and countless boxes of popcorn later, he viewed Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and was struck by the realization that films could be more than mere entertainment. That marked the beginning of a fascination with the cinema that took Corliss to the Cote d'Azur to report this week's two-page Show Business story on the Cannes Film Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 1, 1987 | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...licks with all the eerie, electric echoes of a factory city at night. (In fact he was working as a janitor at a Detroit steel mill when he cut his first records.) This merger of acoustic and electric elements in his trademark "guitar-boogie" style has helped him survive countless folk and rock packagings in his career as a blues deity...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Reviving the Buddha | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...story springs from what Johnson identifies as "Jewish obstinacy," the ability to persevere through centuries of persecution and assimilation. He recounts the history of Hebron, where Abraham bought land from Ephron the Hittite. He describes how the first piece of Jewish real estate has been fought over and occupied countless times, most recently by Israel after the Six-Day War, and asks, "Where are all those peoples which once held the place?" His answer: "They have vanished into time, irrevocably. But the Jews are still in Hebron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yahweh & Sons A HISTORY OF THE JEWS | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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