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...coin flip, the free-spirited Walton said, "I'm no longer a basketball player. I'm a sun lover. I won't play in any city where the weather is inclement." Those were harsh words from one of the most highly-touted college players ever, but Walton agreed to play in Portland...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Bill Walton: Always A Winner | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

Stan Yagiello tied a William & Mary record by throwing four touchdown passes, including a four-yd. flip to Dave Szydlik with 9:02 left in the game, to lead the Tribe to a 33-28 victory over Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Ivy League | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

...Elysee's crystal-chandeliered Salle des Fetes, Gorbachev was at times expansive and jovial. At others -- when questioned yet again about Jewish emigration, for example -- he chopped the air with stiffened fingers and reddened with barely controlled anger. Gorbachev joked about what he described as U.S. arms-control flip-flops, and lectured the international press on its "responsibility" to serve the world's political leadership. He reacted with aplomb as Mitterrand publicly announced his rejection of Gorbachev's proposal of separate arms negotiations with Britain and France. Finally, the Soviet leader issued a warning: "We don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev's Charm Offensive | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...other Cosby imitators are easily disposable. In CBS's Charlie & Company, Flip Wilson and Gladys Knight cope with standard TV family dilemmas in substandard comic fashion. And in ABC's Growing Pains, Alan Thicke, the former talk show host, plays a psychiatrist who sets up an office at home while his wife (Joanna Kerns) goes off to work and his children attack him with lines like "You can't hit me, you're a liberal humanist." The only comedy to venture out of the house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

While such flip-flopping would seem to forecast inconsistency, the squad seems to have ended up as the big winners in the game of revolving coaches...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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