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...strike that would ultimately engage 150 warplanes and drop some 60 tons of bombs on Libya was intricate and constrained by a host of political and diplomatic as well as military considerations. It required U.S. airmen to fly through heavy flak in the dead of night and strike with flawless precision. The primary target: Colonel Gaddafi's headquarters. The unstated hope: that the Libyan leader would be asleep there when the bombs fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...platoon preparing to return to the front. Tonight we must finish the cue-to-cue work, synchronizing the lighting changes with the actors' scenes on stage. The director, Patrick Bradford, is trying to decipher his notes, hastily scrawled during last night's technical run-through. Apparently my performance was flawless, for none of the five lines I deliver are commented upon...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: An Insider's View | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...only previous pitching appearance this season, Vallone threw against Boston University and pitched a flawless inning...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Vallone Centers Crimson Assault on Cross | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

Guare's satire may seem a bit less fresh and daring than it did 15 years ago, if only because it has spawned so many imitators, but in the joyous and all but flawless revival at Lincoln Center, his jokes break up audiences as dizzyingly as ever. So do the wrenching emotional scenes of a boldly tragicomic plot. At the center is a lovers' triangle: a zookeeper and would-be songwriter, played with ingratiating and ultimately terrifying optimism by John Mahoney; his mistress, pneumatically impersonated by Stockard Channing; and his eerily manic-depressive wife, evoked with simultaneous goofiness and dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Irreverence the House of Blue Leaves | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman, 2. The queen, who earned her architecture degree at Princeton ('74), observes: "Our planning may leave something to be desired, but our designs, thank God, have been flawless." And very cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 10, 1986 | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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