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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most current advice givers urge anxious parents not to take such standardization too seriously. Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton (see box), who is publishing next month a revision of his 1969 bestseller, Infants and Mothers, begins by declaring: "There are as many individual variations in newborn patterns as there are infants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

It is an intriguing combination of talents. To film Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction bestseller Dune, Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 63, has attracted the likes of Director David Lynch (The Elephant Man), Special Effects Wizard John Dykstra (Star Wars) and a cast that includes Sting, 31, the leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 25, 1983 | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

A playgoer attending the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for Joseph Papp's first summer offering will soon perceive that Kevin Kline does not fit that description. It is not a question of some malformation of body à la Elephant Man, it is a question of a cancerously aberrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Spider King | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

TV's Censored Bloopers #5 (NBC), rated ninth in the same week, was a virtual clone of Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, but with a salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What Was Lucy's Baby's Name? | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

The play "was like a big, white elephant, dressed as Isadora Duncan dancing in the Parthenon, but fun," said one spectator.

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Euripides Conquers Harvard Gridiron | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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