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They have practiced their roles for a lifetime. And now in Aurora, filming in Italy, Edoardo Ponti, 11, is making his acting debut opposite his magnificent mama Sophia Loren, 49. Naturally, the lad plays Loren's offspring in the movie, which-to keep things in the family-is being produced by his father Carlo Ponti, 70. How did the little cherub do, Mama? "He looks like an angel, but he's really like a devil," says Edoardo's glamorous costar. "Already he criticizes my acting." Meanwhile, the Pontis are working on plans for another family project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 9, 1984 | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard graduate spent three years on the Crimson basketball squad, playing some "pretty mediocre j.v. ball." But for the former South Bend, lad, native and Adams House resident, the opportunity to see some pretty good ball Monday night was a dream come true...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Tradition Continues | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

...camera eye, we can see that Streamers is only incidentally about Viet Nam. Men do not need a war to touch their heart of darkness, Rabe seems to suggest; the threat of human intimacy is provocation enough. Are they men like Billy (Matthew Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raking Up the Autumn Leavings | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter suggested that he might have greatness in him, a quality that historians have not yet detected. Lyndon Johnson once looked into the face of a young black admirer and told friends later that he could tell the lad felt he was in the presence of "the Lord God Almighty." L.B.J. proved all too mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Chorus of Demands | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...most heated arguments were over defense, which accounts for 29% of the budget. Finance Minister Yoram Aridor lad proposed cutting $333 million in military spending. But Defense Minister Moshe Arens argued vehemently that such reductions would impair the army's preparedness and require cutbacks in troop numbers. Begin agreed. At one point he chastised Aridor, saying, "It's not worth cutting the defense budget at a time like this." As a compromise the defense budget was reduced by $141 million this year; another $125 million will be sliced off in the next two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Waking Up in a Fool's Paradise | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

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