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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase their store of information. And the most obvious target for obsessive youngsters is the part of society that produces stimulation constantly--in short, television. So these guys start to learn everything about television, and, as kids, they gravitate toward the tube's broad horizon of situation comedies. My guess is that you could walk into the Lampoon castle tomorrow, ask the inhabitants to sing the theme song from That Girl or to recite the list of characters in The Addams Family, and get an accurate response from virtually everyone...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...didn't close them down," captain John Duggan said after the game. "I guess we just weren't psyched...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Booters Bow to Dartmouth in Overtime | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...That was the most challenging race--mentally and physically--that I've run so far this season," Wiley said afterwards. "Marty is a very tough runner; she passed me on the final hill, which was when I guess I got tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Triumph, Men 2nd at Greater Boston's | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

...Hinckley's elaborate transcontinental drifting in the months that preceded the act, they would be incapable of reaching a verdict dispassionately on the question of his mental state. "Understandably," the attorneys contend in their brief, "there will be great rage and anger directed at Mr. Hinckley." The best guess of lawyers familiar with the case is that Judge Parker will rule in favor of a conventional, single-jury trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is He Crazy About Her? | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...when Reinhart was living in New York, but he never came alive. "He wasn't ready. This time, he gets a good woman at the end. I never know how these things will turn out, but a lot of women have pleaded to let him succeed. I guess he finally wanted to." Berger's recent life has also taken an upswing. Reinhart's Women has been optioned for the movies, Delacorte is issuing the three earlier Reinhart books in a boxed set, and Berger has broken his six-year hermitage to teach a fiction-writing course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quixote in the Kitchen | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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