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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget the Miami-Oklahoma football game. The match-up I'm holding my breath for is the Brown-Yale men's hockey showdown January 13 in Providence...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Can't Wait For a Match-up of the Mediocre | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...search is often successful, and equally often it is not "They took all of my characteristics, and tailor-made a rooming group to perfectly match them," says Sarah B. Wigglesworth '91, explaining that she and her roommates agree in both tastes and temperaments. But another freshman says her room is "turning into a war. I'm going to cry for the rest of the year...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...heart, Wall Street and Broadcast News are comedies too, with high energy levels to match their milieus and enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s. Wall Street Director Oliver Stone and Co- Author Stanley Weiser (Project X) get their manic mileage from the gaudy argot of today's power brokers, principally one Gordon Gekko, a black knight who proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Season Of Flash And Greed | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...Tokyo. He claims that a friend of Korean extraction had helped him apply for his passport four years ago and had kept it for a while, long enough to forge a copy. While police linked the friend to North Korean sympathizers living in Japan, his fingerprints do not match those of the fake Shinichi. As the mystery deepens, Seoul is already threatening to withdraw an offer to allow Pyongyang to stage some Olympic events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of Flight 858 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Paul Simon's earlobes are too big, and his droning voice doesn't match the sprightly bow tie. Bruce Babbitt has trouble working up a convincing smile. Pete du Pont comes across as an eager accountant, and Al Gore could fit comfortably into the cast of Dynasty. All of them, however, could take a few lessons in TV communication skills from the Soviet Union's new media star, Mikhail Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tv's Week: Of Gab and Glasnost | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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