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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Pryor emerges moments later with a bong and some presumably freebased cocaine, the audience knows only too well from the events of Pryor's own life what is about to happen. When we see him in the next scene being carried on a stretcher, looking like a bloody, beached alligator with an afro, we can fill in the blanks ourselves...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

However, other members of the 15-year-old coedsinging group said they supported the move. "I wasvery disappointed [at first] but I think it wasthe correct decision since a substantial numberfelt they did not want to go," said Collegiummember Jennifer R. Weiss '87. "It's unfortunatebut it had to happen. I would feel responsible ifI felt I forced the people who had misgivings togo on the tour...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Singers Scrap Britain Tour | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

Outrageous decisions like these happen because of the Stalinesque nature of the Ad Board, whose members--the top College deans, senior tutors and certain other officials--meet every Tuesday behind closed doors. Where else in this country would you be likely not to know what crime you were charged with? Where else in this country would you have no opportunity to defend yourself in person? Where else in this country would your court-appointed defense attorney also serve as one of your prosecutors? Where else in this country would the judicial body have no responsibility to any higher authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Straw | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

...been some early warnings. The Washington Post's Christopher Dickey had been awakened by a 1:30 a.m. phone call from his U.S. office and told that an attack was to occur that night. Since the Post's editors did not know exactly when or where it would happen, they decided not to keep a telephone line open. Earlier that day, NBC had sent Producer Mike Silver up in a chartered plane to observe the Sixth Fleet. NBC decided that an attack was imminent and kept a phone line open beginning at 1 p.m. CBS and ABC did likewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Close, Yet So Far | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...bright, straightforward youth, with a special talent for languages, mathematics and the piano, who would be an interesting lad even if his dad did not happen to be Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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