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...dinner announcement. Then some 1,100 VIP guests -- including Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Walters, Jerry Hall and Tom Brokaw -- dined and danced in a circus-size tent and watched a fireworks show set to music by Gershwin and Beethoven. Wearing a Forbes tartan kilt and a big grin, Forbes admitted it was "absolutely the biggest party I've ever thrown. We originally thought we'd wait until the 75th, but I decided to have one at 70. That way we only have to wait five years until the next one." On second thought, make that capitalist party tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1987 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...prefer to make arbitrary assessments at the end of the semester," said the professor, flashing a writerly grin into the chest of an Edwardian gown above a pair of purple hightops...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Rocker Dead in Writing Class | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...hillside house, but the maple-syrup season was no damned good at all, and then outrageous rains flooded nearby roads so that Keene and Concord were just about unreachable. Blackfly season is not more than 15 minutes away. Still, the sun is shining, just barely, and yes -- a sour grin -- even the music business is beginning to show signs of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Broderick goes off-Broadway between film gigs and appears eager to tackle adult roles that will challenge him and his fans. Fox, though, seems to enjoy being a boy. His new movie hit, The Secret of My Success, finds him still comfortable in his old haberdashery: straitjacket and elfin grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coping with the Cute Factor | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Inching Down the Capitalist Road | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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