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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making the USBL all-star team isn't Duncan's main goal for the summer. Instead, the Chicago native wants some exposure--and maybe a shot at one of the European professional leagues...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Soaring to a Professional Career | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star in a road picture like the old Hope- Crosby comedies. Ishtar is funny, but its $40 million cost isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page MAY 18, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 20 | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...saying is a damned sight more important than flogging running shoes." "Music is replete with the meaning of the time," reflects Marshall Blonsky, a professor of semiotics at New York City's New School for Social Research. "Beatles music has to do with revolt, but the fitness game isn't revolutionary, it's conformism. The commercial's an attempt by advertisers to appropriate the missing past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wanna Buy a Revolution? | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Hoffman that she seems to forget that there's anyone else in the cast. Isabelle Adjani plays Shirra Assel, a member of the Communist insurgant group which opposes the government of Ishtar. Both Rodgers and Clark fall in love with her, though it's hard to tell why. She isn't around very much and her character is pretty silly. At one point, she flashes her breasts in the middle of and airport to prove she's a woman (doesn't everyone?), and although we're supposed to believe she's devoted to the revolution, she abandons the cause...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...apple -- nothing more exotic than an apple! -- with its handlike paw. "I can't think of any animal that compares," says William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society. "People love penguins, but the interest in pandas is extraordinary. There appears to be an innate response of, 'Oh, isn't it cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Whole World Goes Pandas | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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