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...Garden Grove, Calif., every Christmas season since 1981. This year's three-times-nightly, 75-minute re-enactment of the birth of Jesus boasts Singer Debby Boone, 29, as the Virgin Mary, plus a cast of more than 400 that includes ten flying angels, four white horses, a donkey and three camels. Boone, who is herself expecting this spring, agreed to do the part "because I think it's one of the most important stories that can ever be told." But she reports that one moment in the show did not light up her life: when she accidentally knelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1985 | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Grower's Market on Memorial Drive offers thousands of live Christmas trees, a Christmas shop with ornaments and artificial trees, and a menagerie of Christmas animals including a donkey, two deer, goats, two geese, and roosters...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: It's Christmastime in the Square | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

...would have to see the "Reagan Phenomenon" as a lesson in the need for neat packaging a keen sense of the symbolic they were probably right. We should be concerned that the Democratic National Committee sees its search for a symbol to replace the familiar donkey as good preparation for the upcomming campaign...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Giving Up the Ship | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...grown close to the Bosserts, whom he had met through Gerhard in 1970. In Pedro's final years, said Stammer, she saw him only rarely, including one chance encounter with his son Rolf. "I don't feel I was really guilty," said Stammer. "I feel I was a donkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from Texas to Montana. Why leave semiretirement and undertake a journey better suited for younger men? One answer is that Lonesome Dove would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's a Long, Long Tale Awinding Lonesome Dove | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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