Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated to a message from Old Trouper Ronald Reagan, whose ties to Tinseltown remain...
...sweet, highly personal letter from Young to his son. It just barely survives disembowelment at the hands of a heavy, overmixed electric guitar solo before the final verse. "Why're you growing up so fast, my boy?" the banjo-plucking Young asks, an appropriate enough question in an age when Ringo Starr is enjoying his new status as a grandfather. The album's final two cuts, "Bound for Glory" and the wailer "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" are classic Nashville shlock...
...city councilors who supported the removal of the referendum should have more faith in the constituents who elected them--especially with elections fast approaching...
...more "Red expert" on the fast track is Li Peng, 57, considered the man most likely to succeed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. A Soviet-trained engineer and a technocrat who once headed China's nuclear-energy program, Li became one of the country's four Vice Premiers two years ago. His principal rival for the premiership is Vice Premier Tian Jiyun, 56. Tian's main credential is that he helped to run Sichuan province for ten years as deputy to Zhao...
...Leninism could not solve all of China's problems. "We do have headaches and problems," Chen Muhua, president of the People's Bank of China, said recently. "From the last quarter of 1984 to the first quarter of 1985, we sensed that the pace of economic reform was too fast. But in the course of development, you are bound to meet problems. The thing is to deal with them appropriately...