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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father, Obert Miller, had started with a dog and a trick pony. In 1924 Obert brought eight-year-old D.R. into the act. In 1932 D.R. met a fetching young farm girl named Isla at a barn dance in Kansas. In 1934 D.R. and Isla were married. By then Obert Miller's show had grown to four dogs, four ponies and a monkey, a big enough production to accommodate the newlyweds. For their efforts, D.R. and Isla earned a quarter a week to split. D.R. always bought a cigar with his portion, and Isla bought a candy bar with hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...other official nominee who said he supportsdivestment, Parker G. Montgomery '49, said hewould not comment on the letter because, "I nevervoluntarily step in front of dog pissing on a lamppost...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: 2 More for Overseer Support Divestment | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...unimaginative. There's the mayor's money-hungry dingbat second wife Malvina, well-jiggled by Anita Morris, and her lover business manager Perry Kerch (Scott Wilson) who spends his time working out in the gym and supervising some of the late mayor's more unsavoury investments, including a dog track and a gambling house-cum-bordello...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Ft. Lauderdale Vice | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...precise moment that the three networks began airing their evening newscasts last Monday, U.S. attack planes were roaring toward their five Libyan targets. Out of the black Mediterranean night they came, racing through orange cones of frantic antiaircraft fire to punish the man Ronald Reagan calls the "mad dog of the Middle East." As Americans, transfixed at their television sets, listened to the muffled rattle and thump of the assault filtering over the phone lines of network correspondents holed up in a Tripoli hotel, the U.S. attackers delivered their lethal cargo of laser-directed bombs. As quickly as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

When Showfolk Business Manager Neal Levin needed investors to bankroll a Chinese dim sum diner named Bao Wow in Los Angeles, he naturally turned to clients, including Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, Singer Melissa Manchester and Satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. The first Bao Wow in Beverly Hills was a dog with the dinner trade and closed after a year; the second, in Encino, is a noon and nighttime hit, prompting dreams of a nationwide chain. The Hard Rock Cafe, which offers young Manhattanites an eclectic menu topped with a hefty dollop of rock-'n'-roll memorabilia that includes Elvis Presley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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