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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilot with blond hair and a Kennedyesque smile. "I'm going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong Harbor, hoping to lure out MiGs. Now owner of two evangelical Christian bookstores in Atlanta, Haynes still finds flying magical. "We take a brick, put a little sheet metal on it, add propulsion and cram it into the air," he enthuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...laundry room. At NBC, I share my dressing room with a mop and bucket. The one saving grace to this abuse is that it helps fool even the cast into thinking I really am a puppet, including Anne Schedeen, who plays the real-life Kate Tanner, and the guy who plays Willie, this dithery product of Hesitation ( School named Max Wright. He must have mastered the Dramatic Pause (wake me up at half time!) during his years on the stage at places like Yale and Harvard, schools as prestigious as Podunk and Dingaling on Melmac. Listen to him drivel: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...director of Glengarry Glen Ross is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to throw a bunch of actors into the Adams House swimming pool and charge people to watch them splash around. Mark Prascak, having toweled off from Peerless Gynt, is at it again with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, and his aimless, rampant creativity detracts from an excellent script and some enjoyable acting...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: Fun and Profit | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...Kevan: Kevan Melrose. He is a transfer student from North Dakota and is also a big guy. He was switched to defense in February and his style has been an agressive one. Not many opposing teams like to play against Kevan...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Harvard Hockey Alphabet: Armstrong to Zamboni | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...doesn't a guy who can make you feel good about the electoral process ever get a shot at the big time? If the Reagan years proved anything, it's that a person doesn't need intelligence or experience to run this country. Florenzo DiDonato is just an average Joe who would make a fine President, but he's denied his American birthright by a system that has grown wildly out of proportion to the needs of the nation...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Mr. President, a-la Megabucks | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

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