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Q. You've traveled a million miles entertaining 10 million American troops, landed in planes without engines, endured every kind of hardship, including bomb attacks. Why did you do it?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Hope: Thanks for The Memory | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

And Lynch delivered. Wild at Heart is splendidly grotesque and mammothly entertaining -- the director's first for-sure comedy, Blue Velvet for laughs. The plot, from Barry Gifford's noirish novel, is your standard slice of poisoned American pie: a pair of loser-friendly lovers, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unlaced And Weird on Top | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

The story going around Kinshasa is that one night late last December, Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko was entertaining a roomful of dinner guests when the television broadcast news of Nicolae Ceausescu's precipitate execution in Bucharest. Mobutu had long counted as a friend the Romanian autarch, who came to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Continental Shift | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

Last year in New Jersey seven middle-class teens allegedly took a miniature baseball bat and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old mentally impaired girl as six friends looked on. Who knows what demons haunted the boys? Were they all psychologically disturbed, or were they acting normally in a culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Parent's View of Pop Sex and Violence | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

In answering this question, the play takes off in all sorts of comic directions. There are phone calls to the playwright himself incorporating a tape recorded voice that sounds pretty much like Woody Allen, and an appearance by Blanche DuBois, followed by Groucho Marx and a messenger from Western Union...

Author: By Dara Mayers, | Title: Laughter in Metaphysics | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

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