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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson missed his second free-throw opportunity and Carl Wright of the Mustangs hit a 25-foot jump shot with one second left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Tourney | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann and the courtesan he marries. The result, Un Amour de Swann (English version: Swann in Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 19, 1984 | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Rolando Lamb sank a 20-foot jump shot at the buzzer to lift Virginia Commonwealth to a 70-69 victory over Northeastern in the first round of the East Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament last night at East Rutherford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Roundup | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

Besides having to defeat the costs arghument, the polling hours bill had higher political hurdles to jump...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: New Poll Hours Should Up Blue-Collar Turnout | 3/13/1984 | See Source »

...reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear it blasted through Dolby stereo sound speakers every 10 minutes...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Srange Preppies | 3/13/1984 | See Source »

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