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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans so apprehensive about a woman Vice President? The golden eras of England's history were under two women: Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, who reigned over the largest empire the world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1984 | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...Olympic Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Made-for-TV Extravaganza | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Most of the classical revivals at the National smell just as strongly of the lamp. Both Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd lie open and inert on the stage, as if they were exams to be passed and not theatrical experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: With a Little Help from Our Friends | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Hoddy had a golden eagle, a twelve-year-old female named Fluff, and he wanted it in the show. The show, while accepting Hoddy's proposal, wanted a bald eagle-national bird and all that-instead of a golden. The one picked came from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where it had lived for 22 years virtually without flying. Its name was Bomber, and according to Hoddy, "it looked like a little butterball turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hooray for Hollywood | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...prices 10% to 50% less than those charged by the organized undertakers (Paris average: $1,170), Leclerc will give clients the ultimate sendoff. His prices include a coffin, a golden hearse, pallbearers and burial. But the price, not the frills, he feels, is the attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monopolies: Undercutting the Undertakers | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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