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...center, which is nestled between a rack of basketballs and shelves of automotive supplies. Frank Fortini, 21, was toting a dry-cleaning bag in one hand as he picked up some Coldwell, Banker real estate brochures with the other. Said he: "I already have Allstate insurance. Now my fiancée and I are looking for a house." Sears seems determined to live up to its old slogan: "Sears has everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Socks and Stocks | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

Ezra's homesick restaurant is not very profitable. It does manage to survive on its owner's terms, which, if one reads Tyler correctly, are worth more than the print-outs of an efficiency expert. Cody, in fact, hates Ezra for his wise foolishness and steals his fiancée. She is a scrawny country girl who unhappily ends up in expensive boxy suits and fancy automobiles. But Ezra is not deterred. A would-be wife turned sister-in-law is still family, and a family should eat together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eat and Run | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with her-and, when Sarah mysteriously abandons him, to live with her memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Acting Becomes Alchemy | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...every plot turn-probing his characters' thoughts on one page, shrugging genially that he's no mind reader on the next. And finally, this most dextrous of card sharks trumps his story. He provides three contradictory endings to his tale: in the first, Charles marries his fiancée, in the second Charles and Sarah are blissfully reconciled, in the third they part, never to see each other again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Acting Becomes Alchemy | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...think so; not at first anyway. When he and Diana posed on the back terrace of Buckingham Palace on their engagement day, he acted as if he had made a wise choice, a becoming choice, but perhaps not a compelling one. "Are you in love?" asked a reporter. His fiancée beamed, blushed and said yes. The Prince's answer: "Whatever love means"-a remark of rather too much objectivity, hinting at even a touch of weariness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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