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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They look like the scrawny camp followers of a medieval army as they gather under a huge bluff called Dongordo. The earth is boiled beige, with hardly a blade of green. There are nearly 7,000 of them, and they began assembling here long before dawn. Dressed in ragged homespun cotton and wrapped in long shawls called netela, they come in entire families, grandfathers and grandchildren. The men hold herding sticks; the women carry babies bound to their backs with cloth. And then there are the youngsters, some of them naked and with their heads shaved except for a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again - and aid groups fear the worst | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...dawn in the Midwest, and Jane Craig, network-news producer on location, is already hard at work. She jogs outside her motel past a phalanx of newspaper machines and buys a copy of every available paper. She phones her colleagues awake in other motel rooms -- thank heaven, two of them are married, saves a call. She indulges a pal's dead-on impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then she unplugs the phone, sits on her bed and has a good cry: heaving shoulders, racking sobs, a face contorted into a bruised fist, a doll in tears because no one will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Certainly, the study of Intimacy and Sexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon. At the dawn of history men and women were completely ignorant of intimacy therapy and safe sex techniques. In fact, scientists speculate that man in this early stage relied on primitive grunts and groans to express his uncertainties about his sexual identity. Lubricants were as yet undreamed...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Navel Contemplation | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...door roughnecks push the duo out of their motel and onto the open prairie. There they set up house, a hibachi and Mickey's Roy Orbison records, and they look for romance outside the local jail, waiting for the first newly sprung women--two gold-hearted hookers named Brenda (Dawn Couch) and Cathy (Pamela Gien...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Oil Gluttony | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Marty Lodge and Dawn Couch recite the lines and practice the form they will use that night as the characters Poot and Brenda in the American Repertory Theatre's (ART) performance of William Hauptman's Gillette...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Teaching the ART of Acting | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

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