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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modesty of her origins. Her mother was a former chorus girl, her father a violinist who . deserted his family when his daughter was nine. Before long, however, Clare Boothe was decorating her resume. In 1913 she was Mary Pickford's understudy in a play titled A Good Little Devil; by eleven she had written a play of her own; and at 16 she had run away from home to work in a factory making paper favors. When her mother remarried, she began to enjoy her first taste of society and was soon zestfully embracing all the paradoxes of getting ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's First Renaissance Woman : Clare Boothe Luce: 1903-1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...widely venerated for having been a progressive on civil rights and an opponent of the Viet Nam War. He was touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate in 1956 and 1960. When his father made the case for running, young Gore played a combination of Hamlet and devil's advocate, dwelling on the negatives. His mother Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think he's talked himself out of it." But his son telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Al Gore:Trying to Set Himself Apart | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...popular myth the conflict between a writer's literary aspirations and the coarser demands of the marketplace besets only the "serious" author. Novelists who turn out the mystery, thriller, police or spy story are presumed to have long since made their peace with the printer's devil. In fact, however, the ranks of crime writers are as beleaguered as any other by the need for compromise. The battle rarely focuses on setting, which may be urban or rural, domestic or foreign, modern or ancient, or on subject matter, for which these days the rule seems to be the kinkier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Be or Not to Be | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...culmination of the pilgrimage, each hajji "stones the devil," flinging seven pebbles at each of the three "devil pillars" on the plain. Pilgrims then return to Mecca, where they end the hajj...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moslem Pilgrimage Continues in Arabia | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker's followers, who scolded me for doing the devil's work," says Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Aug. 3, 1987 | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

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