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...simply a group of stories sharing a common protagonist? Is its leading man, John Everett, a modern knight errant sacrificing himself to obsolete notions of romantic love? Or is he merely a maundering hick, caroming off women who easily recognize the traits of a user? Is his creator, Robert Hemenway, an artist of light-meter sensitivity? Or is he simply a construction worker employing the worn materials of bromides and reveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanderings | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...never more than a two-goal difference yesterday at the Rutgers Sports Complex, and victory wasn't sure until just 1:28 remained on the scoreboard. That's when junior Claire Farley sent her second goal of the day past Scarlet Knight netminder Maria Grant to give the Crimson...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Laxwomen Topple Rutgers | 4/11/1984 | See Source »

...people like to take credit for bringing the Jacksons to Motown. Diana Ross had a special, and she put us on it. She opened the doors for us. Gladys Knight was the first one who tried to get me to come to Motown. But Joe Jackson brought the Jacksons to Motown. About two years before we actually got there, I sent Berry Gordy a tape. They kept it about three months and then sent it back. But I knew the kids had something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...upholstered in red velvet. In the den is a horseshoe-shaped viewing area, with a couch facing a fireplace and a builtin television set. Another large clock with Roman numerals hangs above the mantelpiece. Off the den is a mahogany bar under a leaded stained-glass window with a knight in armor looking up at a black castle on a hill. The bar is really an old-fashioned soda fountain: you can have whatever you want, ice cream, milkshakes, sodas. The living room is like a garden, with hundreds of flowers printed on the couches and rugs. The dining room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Suddenly the withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Lebanon began to gather momentum, and by the end of last weekend it was just about over. Wave after wave of Sea Knight and Sea Stallion helicopters ferried equipment and supplies from a coastal landing pad near Beirut International Airport to the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet outlined, gray on gray, on the horizon. Nudged by a forklift truck, a long-barreled 155-mm howitzer trundled slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Marines Leave Lebanon | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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