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...seen traffic at Hampton Beach from eight in the morning until eight at night, bumper to bumper," Hampton Police Sgt. Victor DeMarco told the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board during hearings on evacuation plans for New Hampshire communities within Seabrook's 10-mile emergency zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officials: Seabrook Evacuation Would Be Chaos | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

...Jenson, who is now a broker in the Westwood office of Merrill Lynch. "It's amazing that I didn't hit anyone." Using the rear-view mirror, many men shave with electric razors and women often apply their makeup. Some people even dress behind the wheel. Janice Conover, a Hampton Jitney Co. bus driver who regularly plies the Long Island Expressway (popularly known as the Long Island Parking Lot), has seen motorists so engrossed in the morning newspaper that they drift from one lane toward another, luckily at minimal speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Trapped Behind The Wheel | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...everything in its path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead or wishing they were. A novel of letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. The R.S.C. staging, which won the 1986 Olivier award for best play, the West End's equivalent of the Tony, has been imported intact. Last week it set Broadway ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Roundelay of Deadly Conquests LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Then, there it was: "East Hampton--Next Exit." My heart thumped; would it be true? Would Cappi be there? Or was I wrong? Maybe it really was the girl Dave had once known, maybe I was the hapless victim of my own nostalgic fantasies. Or was Dave the victim?--maybe Adam's brutal sexual slurs were thorougly accurate, and Dave's virility was about to be trampled by an Iowan heavyweight with a five dollar halo floating above her pimply head. We would soon know...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Fourth Grade Blue | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...drama in Selma in March 1965 was the culmination of a decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images Of Glory | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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