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...exactly your standard duet on last week's Country Music Awards show. There was Willie Nelson, the crusty country and western singer, sharing the stage-and microphone-with Julio Iglesias, the Latin crooner who does not serenade his multinational audiences in a good ole boy's drawl. The unusual pairing came about after Nelson heard about Iglesias during a visit to London. The two got together to record the oldie As Time Goes By for Nelson's next album, and for Iglesias' next LP they did To All the Girls I've Loved Before, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Oct. 24, 1983 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...universal themes. This bittersweet romantic comedy confronts the budding relationship between two middle aged people with delightful sincerity. The film is of special interest because middle aged loneliness is something few of today's filmmakers seem eager to deal with. And while the actors speak in a distinctly Australian drawl, the plot could have taken place anywhere...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Aussies Bridge The Gap | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...babies available for adoption were being kept in institutions until the age of four months because doctors were reluctant to certify that any younger infant was fully normal. "Four months is just too long to deprive anybody of a new baby," Brazelton recalls, with a trace of a Texas drawl that has survived his years in Boston. "That led me to say, 'Well, gosh, anybody can tell whether a new baby's O.K. or not. What is it we're going by?' Then I began to put together all these things that any good clinician uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The New Dr. Spock: A Great Dad | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Bryant liked to drawl, "I'm dumb, but I can take what somebody else invents and make it work for me." Though the coach realized he was not an innovator -in the sense of wishbone offenses - he knew what he was. "God did give me the gift of leading men. I can do that. So I don't try to save the world. I just go at it one football player at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tears Fall on Alabama | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

KIRYAT SHMONE Israel-Israel and Lebanon broke a three-week dead lock and agreed yesterday on an agenda for negotiation over with drawl of foreign armies front Lebanon an Israel spokesman announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israelis and Lebanese Break Mideast Deadlock | 1/14/1983 | See Source »

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