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...like Angel with lines like "You're living in a dream world, baby,"; the college counselor, who visits Angel's roach-ridden tenement in an I Magnan's dress to save the bright, ambitious student; and, of course, the strectfelk--including the protective transvestite, the pistol-toting imitator of Kit Carson, and the tobacco-chewing; gun-wielding landlord...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...expected, the Marines are unable to turn the military base and airport over to the Lebanese Army, the last contingent would probably leave secretly at night. The unit's departure would be announced only after its 100 or so members, carrying little more than their personal weapons and kit bags, are safely aboard Sixth Fleet ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Peeling an Onion in Reverse | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...keep the cash flowing until their products pay off, many biotechnology companies have been looking for fresh capital infusions and alliances with big chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Cytogen (fiscal 1983 revenues: $383,000), a small Princeton, N.J., firm, for example, has developed a kit for diagnosing gonorrhea. But it sold the technology to Health Care Manufacturer Becton Dickinson of Paramus, N.J., which will actually make the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoping to Clone Some Profits | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...stand") that is one of Milk and Honey's sharpest cuts. This song, according to the call-and-response style established by Double Fantasy, is answered by One's reassuring Don't Be Scared, which contains wisdom ("If your hearts are lit/ Drop your survival kit/ Then you never have to/ Run or split") that would be poor balm even to the troubled soul of a fortune-cookie writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Songs | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...company has spent more than $200 million building eight Crowne Plaza hotels, its new line of cushy inns with rooms priced at about 20% more per night than the average $42 Holiday Inn room. Offering its guests such little extras as a free morning paper and a toiletry kit, the company will portray Crowne Plaza as luxury at reasonable rates. Spacious rooms designed for business travelers will be available in another Holiday Inn chain called Embassy Suites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room at the Top | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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