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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What a gift and a burden, to be Marcello Mastroianni. Though none of his 150 or so films were made in Hollywood, he is the consummate movie star: charming, at ease in his celebrity, with the light, self-deprecating tilt to his wit that royalty wears so well. The face wears well too. At 63 it has settled into a comfortable handsomeness. Today Mastroianni is exhausted from too many interviews on this Manhattan visit to promote his film Dark Eyes. But like a Casanova tantalized by the inevitability of one more conquest, he will of course accommodate another visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cary Grant, Italian Style | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...reflection of the strategy of trying to change this guy into a friendly, bearded moderate," says Kevin Phillips. Indeed, since the summer, the Administration has countered charges that Bork is a right-wing zealot by depicting the judge as an open-minded centrist. Bork portrayed himself in the same light during his five days of Senate testimony last month. But in the process, he revised or backed away from some of his more conservative stands on issues ranging from freedom of speech to privacy rights. Judiciary Committee Member Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, called Bork's changes of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone With the Wind | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Baby Bummer | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

Step one: Get a photo. Our sophomore returned to her room/instant photo studio. She set up a light blue background with a Veritas seal in the upper right hand corner and had her roommate take her picture. She had the photo printed in the appropriate size and inserted it into the correct spot. It wasn't perfectly straight, but then most real i.d. pictures aren...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: From 18 to 21 In Six Easy Steps | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...despite these myriad opportunities for simple pleasure the assistant feels exploited or even despondent, let him reflect upon the cheering fact that without his presence the British government would be spending still more of the money it so patently lacks. He may then view his summer in the light of a charitable contribution to the British economy and return to his native climes in a rosy glow of pleasant self-righteousness...

Author: By Ellen J. Harvey, | Title: The Sun Also Sets | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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