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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list goes on and on as sweat pours from my body. At length ball up my application, and force me to eat it, "What have you done here?" one of my Inquisitors finally demands...

Author: By Benjamini N. Smith, | Title: Broken Dreams | 5/17/1985 | See Source »

...existence. "I'm sick of watching those other ones." True devotees greeted the news of the cache as if it were the discovery of a tenth symphony by Beethoven. In September, Showtime, the pay-cable channel, will begin running weekly collections of the newly released sketches, which vary in length from seven to 45 minutes; a year or so after that, Viacom will put them into regular syndication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: How Sweet It Is, Again | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...take the girl out of the Social Register (which they have), but you can't take the Social Register out of the girl. The formal charity affair in Manhattan last week was ever so just so--she in her pearls, taffeta debutante dress and full-length white kid gloves, and her brother Philipp Molzer in white tie and tails. After all, the honored lady of the evening was Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, the New Jersey socialite whose family lines reach back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Barrows primly described the evening as "a lovely affair." Never mind that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 13, 1985 | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

George Stevens Jr. has assembled a feature-length portrait of his father from interviews, film clips and family memorabilia (including some riveting home- away-from-home movies of the Allied landing in Normandy, which Senior filmed at the request of General Eisenhower). The chronicler has his father's sharp eye and leisurely sense of pace; he takes his time telling a story that means much to him. The perspective is both judicious and adoring, as if he were young Brandon de Wilde to his father's Shane. The old pro taught the boy how to shoot and, as this moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...LAST TIME Erich Segal '58 got the urge to write at length about his alma mater, he produced Love Story, and Freshman Week hasn't been the same since...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Stranger Than Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

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