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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More traditionally English? Feel the freedom of expression granted by blunt objects. And what physics major could resist observing the highspeed impact of one object with another...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...Moby Dick' is written on three levels." (English...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Stones lived in Manhattan town houses and Stamford, Conn., homes; Oliver went to Manhattan's tony Trinity School and the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa.; he summered with his maternal grandparents and spoke French before he learned English. (From Viet Nam, Oliver would write his grandmother versions of the letters that Chris reads in Platoon.) At five he composed skits for a marionette show, casting his French cousins in the parts. At seven he wrote stories. To earn a quarter for a Classic comic book, he would write a theme each week for his father. And at nine he started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Talk of the Town | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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