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...that Casket." Nerissa holds up an "Applause" sign. Here, the cast "deviates" from Shakespeare's script. After the emcee announces that the first contestant is the Prince of Morocco (Nestor Figueroa), he asks." Tell me about yourself--where are you from?" "Morocco" answers the Prince, while the other suitors howl "Go for the gold" in the background...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Lost in Time | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...month ago, my husband took to reciting table manners from the 1963 edition of Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette. Our two young sons howl with laughter when they hear how to eat bacon, chicken or spaghetti. Who knows, it just might sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 26, 1984 | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

That punch line sets off a howl of laughter in the Budapest cabaret Vidám Szinpad, where audiences flock to see Go Hungarians, a comedy revue with a heavy dash of political seasoning. In the nearly three decades since Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 uprising, Hungary has learned to live and prosper just within the limits of what Moscow will tolerate. Budapest presents ample evidence of the cautious changes that have made Hungary's 11 million people the most Westernized and best fed in the Soviet bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Living Within the Limits | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...push to "privatization," however, has been among the most controversial and difficult undertakings of the Thatcher government. Union leaders and members of the opposition Labor Party, which began the movement toward state-owned enterprises in 1946, howl that the sell-off is really a form of "piratization," which robs the British people of companies that rightfully belong to them. The critics have dubbed Norman Tebbit, Thatcher's Secretary for Trade and Industry and a key figure in the socialist selloff, the "principal gravedigger of British industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Socialist Sell-Off | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Traditionally, spring marks the dog days of the movie business. This year, though, Hollywood is sending up a happy howl over a quartet of surprise hits: Disney's man-meets-mermaid comedy Splash ($37.5 million in 31 days); Warners' tony Tarzan epic Greystoke ($14.8 million in ten days); Fox's distaff Raiders rip-off'Romancing the Stone (5/2.5 million in ten days); and a rowdy ensemble farce, Police Academy (an astonishing $30 million in its first 17 days). Herewith, reports on three new contenders and the reigning champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greening of the Box Office | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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