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Items such a frappes are more expensive here-$1.75 compared to $1.25 at Quincy-but such exotic flavors as M&M and mocha chip make them thick and well worth the price. Other specialties include the Dolly Dog-a bacon and cheese hot dog named for the House superintendent, and...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

It didn't have to be that way. Based on a Graham Greene novel, The Honourary Consul, the film has the requisite political intrigue, exotic locale and torrid sex to endear it to countless moviegoers. What's more, Beyond the Limit has Richard Gere and Michael Caine, two tried and...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A Film With Plenty of Nothing | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

In reality, B.B.R.D. & W. made few actual investments: part of a travel agency here, a piece of a car dealership there. The "business" was little more than a high-stakes chain letter that lasted two or three years: earlier investors were paid dividends out of funds forked over by later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantasy Island, Aloha-Style | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

I tried that experiment this summer. Three weeks after the plane first deposited me by myself on French soil, the school where I was taking a course offered an orientation movie for its newest arrivals. The film was sweet; three interwoven plots presented the theme "Discovering Paris" by tracking three...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Ordinary People | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

Even before the huge aircraft, 232 ft. long and 196 ft. between wing tips, rose into the cloudless sky, the 14 women and four men flight attendants began making their 244 passengers comfortable. Still in their standard blue uniforms, the attendants served champagne to the twelve first-class passengers, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atrocity In the Skies: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down by the Soviets | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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