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> In the logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Drugs and Death on the High Seas | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Brinkley, not eager to uproot his life in Washington with Second Wife Susan plans to commute to New York for a year and see if things work out. It is a big if that has network executives wondering: Can Brinkley, the son of a Wilmington, N.C. railway clerk, outdraw that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: David Takes On a Goliath | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Who knows? Who cares, finally? The fun lies in the journey. It is a trip of constantly shifting perceptions and sharply etched satirical sketches of movie types (the anxious writer, the stars in constant need of reassurances and some good lighting, the crew members variously laconic, envious and nymphomaniacal). It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frosh Breeze | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Cheech and Chong don't look like bums anymore. In fact, Cheech Martin and Tommy Chong have escaped the barrio forever and are flying high on two magical drugs: popularity and commercial success. As a stand-up comedy team, they had thousands of followers for their routines about ghetto life...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

At his best, Walter Hill strips familiar movie forms of their cultural and nostalgic crustations, polishing them down to their existential bone and gristle. Like Hemingway's, his laconic style can be come mannered to the point of self-parody, as it was in The Driver. But when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Traveling | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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