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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Natalie Davis, a professor at Princeton and president of the American Historical Association, will highlight the week with a lecture next Friday afternoon...

Author: By Gordon M. Burnes, | Title: Women's History Week To Include Talks, Films | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...raisin makers went for it, as did Kentucky Fried Chicken, Aim Toothpaste, Captain Crunch, and an insurance company. Wise choice: The commercials resulting, the highlight of this retrospective sampling from Vinton's studio, are far more memorable than the products they hawk...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: On Film | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...there were enough disco songs for Casey Kasem to spend four hours counting down "the top disco hits of all time." The highlight of the chart-smashing list was the 24th biggest disco hit of all time, "Disco Duck." Casey proclaimed disco here to stay precisely because it was mature enough to poke fun at itself...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: TALKING MUSIC: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...highlight of the five-day visit was a three-hour session with Gorbachev that one American termed "a lively give-and-take." The Communist Party General Secretary took a hard line on U.S.-Soviet relations. Calling the current bitter feelings between Washington and Moscow "unworthy of great nations," he blamed the impasse on groups in the U.S. "to which hostility is % profitable." Gorbachev spoke broadly of "forces that need the U.S.S.R. as an 'enemy image' and use the high-powered information media to sow hatred toward the Soviet people." The Soviet leader still had hopes of holding arms-control talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Travelers to a Changing Land | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...Duke highlight film from last night was even brighter, topped without question when super-leaper Billy King soared through--or rather, above--the lane to slam home a rebound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Putty | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

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