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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it rolls off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Ky., the ZR1 will become the first $50,000 production car built entirely in the U.S. GM is not saying much about its new roadster, but Car and Driver magazine claims the ZR1 will hit 190 m.p.h., which would put it in a class with the best European performers. The current top-of-the-line Corvette reaches only 159 m.p.h. and costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Chevy with a Heavy Sticker | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

BEETLEJUICE. Is it the fey humor or the calypso tunes that have made this movie a monster hit? Most likely it is Michael Keaton's turbodrive performance as a haunt who is hot to party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 16, 1988 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Playwright August Wilson tops his last Broadway hit, Fences, with a mystical and moving slice of life set in a black boardinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 16, 1988 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...behind. At every step or two, the aspiring dealmaker histrionically kisses the mogul's hindquarters. Ostensibly this scene of ritual abasement between old, close friends is being staged for an audience of one, the mogul's new secretary. It is also a central metaphor in Broadway's hottest new hit, Speed-the-Plow, a foulmouthed and ferociously funny slice of Hollywood life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madonna Comes to Broadway | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...crime- fighting hit America' s Most Wanted is just one of several shows that are blurring the line between fact and fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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