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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varying prices. What perhaps got Regan into the hottest water, though -- and it's kind of scary the Government might work this way -- is that he refused to provide damning evidence against Drexel and others: "Cooperate and we'll go easy on you. Stonewall us and we'll kill you." We've seen it on TV a thousand times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...tune of the Beach Boys' I Get Around. "The sperm comes on and people go crazy," says Jonathan Krane, the film's producer. "From then on they're laughing at the picture." Not quite. They're laughing with it, in the easy, conspiratorial laughter any domestic comedy would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Whole Town's Talking | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...haven't been able to kill penalties as well as we have in the past," Cleary said. "We have to improve there...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Home Invasion: Cadets Shock | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Ultimately, the task of the armed forces is to kill people when called upon to do so, a task which we all like to think does not come naturally to people. The main concern of military training is to prepare recruits for this by dehumanizing the enemy and dehumanizing the recruit by making her or him function as only one component of a larger machine. He or she must wear a uniform, follow orders, perform drills, honor rank and the like. Given the goals, tolerance and sympathy for fellow humans are not encouraged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No R.O.T.C. on Campus | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...Lejune is madly in love with Otley and is angry, suspecting that she and the bumbling Frederick Fellowes (Steve Petersen) are having an affair. Barton's Lejune storms around backstage begging Gunn's Otley to take him back, yelling at her for having an affair and plotting to kill Steve Petersen, who wonderfully portrays the innocent Fellowes...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: And on the Eighth Day, God Took His Valium | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

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