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...Bobo's brother, Lloyd is a hapless straightman, demonstrating his own talent for physical comedy by being a complete klutz. He is at the mercy of both Bobo and his loopy mother (Cloris Leachman). With her deadpan delivery of some of Walk's funniest lines, Leachman almost steals the limelight from Mandel...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Walk Like a Man | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax evasion and illegal banking operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stain on A Shining Record | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Another Crimson player took the limelight in the tourney finale, as sophomore Allen Bourbeau filled in for his wounded captain by scoring a hat trick in the opening two periods to put Harvard up, 4-3, heading into the final stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLASHBACK--March, 1986: Harvard and the Final Four | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...Thanks to Shirley McLaine, things have picked up--we've jumped off the Gypsy wagon train and into the limelight," says Gloria McPherson, a psychic reader who works part-time for the Healers' Resource Center...

Author: By Heather R. Mcleod, | Title: Psychic Fair in The Square: Crystals, Readings and Runes | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

technological limelight, the report projected that

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: OIT Takes Key Role In Computer Policy | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

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