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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that if he doesn't have a payday soon, he will have to sell his house in New York and move -- has it really come to this? -- to the green tedium of Vermont. He is reduced to pitching an idea for a TV series whose main character is a dog. But network biggies aren't much interested. Harry's timing is bad, which is to say, he is unfashionably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Today Braden is comfortably ensconced with his wife Melody and his dog Mousse in a French country-style house in Coto de Caza, a four-minute walk from the college. He owns a piece of another Vic Braden Tennis College, in St. George, Utah, and has an income well into six figures, two jeeps and a vacation house. Both his two children and Melody's three (from previous marriages) are grown and on their own. But Braden once more has to "save up." Arvida is pulling out of Coto de Caza, and he is trying to raise money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...question has taken root in the power circles of Washington. It is thrown up at every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into history unless he has some miracle up his sleeve or gets a little of Ronald Reagan's luck. So far, he has not had an oversupply of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Is Bush Bold Enough? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Fabulous Baker Boys shows off Michelle Pfeiffer's voice, Jeff Bridges' sophistication and Beau Bridges' spray-painted hair. And any flick that does all this with style, charm and a big dog named Ned is worth paying good money...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Velazquez's Binding Ethic | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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