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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping his dwindling, aging, increasingly fractious flock together. Their story, stretching over many years, is told with deft economy and quiet wit by Writer-Director Gabriel Axel, who builds an uncannily rich texture out of the simplest materials. Still, the viewer muses, this picture is called Babette's Feast. Where is Babette? Where is her feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dining Well Is the Best Revenge BABETTE'S FEAST | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

February 4, 1987: Coming into Monday's opening round of the 35th annual Beanpot Tournament, the Harvard hockey team seemed ready to feast on its underdog opponent...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Drop Another Shot at 'Pot | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6, 1904, some old friends gather, as they have for many years on this day, at the home of two elderly sisters for dancing and supper. They sing songs and make speeches. They quarrel about the opera and worry about the drunkenness of one man while not noticing that another is getting quietly blotto. It's every awful party we have ever attended, and Huston is wonderfully ambiguous about it: affectionate toward the hospitable impulses at work here, slyly satirical about the clumsy ways these impulses are expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Huston's Serene Farewell THE DEAD | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...first time in several years, Minnesota Farmer Alan Larsen had reason to be truly thankful on Thanksgiving. As members of his family sat down to a holiday feast last week, they could take some pride and satisfaction in this year's harvest. The 700 acres of corn and soybeans surrounding the Larsen homestead near Heron Lake (pop. 783) yielded a bountiful crop, and 700 head of cattle sold for good prices. Larsen's earnings are up, his indebtedness down. ! "Two years ago I was badly stressed," recalls Larsen, 31. "Now things look a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds Of Recovery in the Farmbelt | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...keep your friends sane at the Christmas feast table...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: `Twas Twenty-One Days Before Christmas | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

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