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...bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short on pizazz. No wonder the studios, legally barred since 1948 from owning theaters, were exploiting the laissez- faire mood of the Reagan Administration to buy up theaters and get back into exhibition. The exhibitors couldn't hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...presidential aspirants hack away at one another. Reagan will stand aside for now. "In 1985, when I got out of the Senate," recalls Baker, "I came down to the White House to see the President and tell him I wanted to run for President. I asked him if he was going to try to pick his successor. He said, 'I do not intend to.' Then I had a second question. If he changed his mind, would he let me know? He said he would, and I have not heard a thing." Baker has warned his staff not to slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Baker's End-Game Plan | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...What the Hack?: Tri-Captain Bill Mohler has fouled out of three of the Crimson's four games this season...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Up and Down Cagers Seek Equilibrium | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

...unforgettable moment on Nov. 7, as all six candidates gathered in Des Moines for the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, ready to discuss the issues. That same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke, and the politicians were forced to hack through thickets of have-you-ever interrogation. Two (Al Gore and Bruce Babbitt) volunteered that they had. When it was Richard Gephardt's turn at the pressroom ritual, he restated his lifelong purity concerning controlled substances. Then a question shouted from the back row: Why didn't you smoke marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rethinking The Fair Game Rules | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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