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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIGHT expect the venerable professor of the "Ten Minute University", who visited Boston earlier this month, to be a guy who spouts off trivia by the milli-second. Actually, he is just your average shmo from Long Island and has the plodding/whiny speech to prove...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...sign of recognition from the drivers who have traveled for hours more or less together -- in the lee of an aptly named roadside restaurant called Huddle. "Lady," snarls the gas-station owner, "don't you ever clean your headlights with a squeegee. Stuff gets in it, and the next guy will scratch his windshield." At another stop, 200 miles farther along on the fast-food chain, a hopeful French tourist inquires, "Ou est la salade?" Cherie, you are in the land of American fried here. No salad, no apples, no milk. Just mysterious bundles from some hellish central kitchen, lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Separate Reality on I-95 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead November 30, 1987 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...customary first-class air accommodations, he is wedged into a center seat in the tourist section between an old gentleman who snores and a chubby gentleman who chats. The latter is Del Griffith (John Candy), a salesman of shower-curtain rings and not at all Neal's kind of guy. He dresses funny, is too eager to be helpful, and has abominable snacking habits. Most reprehensible, he stole a cab from Neal when both were fighting their way to the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Worst-Case Scenario PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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