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Longtime viewers fondly recall the programs of TV's alleged Golden Age, the '50s. A more realistic nostalgia has grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 14, 1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

That may have to be a game plan worthy of a Super Bowl champion. For more than a decade, Eastern has failed to come to grips with the changing realities of the airline industry. Even prior to 1978, when U.S. carriers were still regulated and fares were set by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earning Wings the Hard Way | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

On a length of diaphanous cotton, larger than a stole, smaller than a shroud, there is the figure of a tiger, magisterial in its power, surreptitious in its impact. The cloth must be moved, draped just so and drawn at the proper angle to the light before the outline of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Harmony of Fugitive Color | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

IN BOTH PLAYS, the actors aptly demonstrate their flexibility with character changes, but they excel most in hamming. Cannon, for example, tries too hard to aspire to the dramatic ideal of Macbeth but does well as the frustrated and displaced Landovsky. Kimberly Estes performs vigorously whether she is Mrs. Dogg...

Author: By M. ELISABETH Bentel, | Title: Clever Language Games | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

He goes by a variety of names: Abul Abbas, Mohammed Abbas, Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, Abu Khaled. He has been an ally and enemy of Syria's, a colleague and critic--simultaneously--of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat's. Until a few weeks ago he was one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: a Would-Be Palestinian Rambo | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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