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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him. Best songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE THEATER 1929; Maurice Chevalier | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Western Electric advertisements proclaim that its 256K RAM is "shattering the myth that America has fallen behind in microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chips Are Flying Again | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Although Sir Weej, whose real name is Luigi, spends a couple of hours a day hunched over his terminal, he is neither a computer professional nor a thrill-seeking whiz kid. He is just an ordinary citizen who yearns to communicate. Along with tens of thousands of other computer owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Plugging into the Networks | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Suder's predicament seems the stuff of sure-fire fiction, an unusual and interesting character struggling with mysterious demons. But after deftly establishing this premise, Rookie Author Percival L. Everett, 26, darts off in another direction entirely. Suder simply walks out on his wife, his team, Seattle. He buys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

People who think pachyderms are intrinsically funny will find the rest of Suder sidesplitting. Renoir certainly provokes his share of double takes. The man robbed by Suder tracks him to a cabin in Oregon, where he notices the large pet: "What's that?" Suder's reply: "That'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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