Word: melvoin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names have changed but the song remains the same. Prince, also short and mysterious, is the man with the vision. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Wendy Melvoin, and Lisa Coleman are among the visionary's close-knit circle of talented friends. Unlikely Minneapolis is the setting and unknown starlet types, mostly Prince's girlfriends, have turned into recording "artists" like Vanity, Appolonia, and Sheila...
...Angeles, Correspondent Jeff Melvoin interviewed TRON Writer-Director Steven Lisberger. They soon realized that they shared a passion for the computer games that are the creative impulse for the film. Melvoin also visited the Disney studios in Burbank, Calif., and interviewed several top company executives. He talked with Disney alumni who have gone on to make their own animated films and with Director Steven Spielberg, the creator of E. T., who acknowledges a spiritual debt to Disney. Says Melvoin: "Visiting the Disney studios was like an invitation into a childhood dream...
...this week's cover story on video games, TIME staff members not only interviewed manufacturers, distributors, arcade operators and scores of gamesters, they also displayed exceptional dedication as they took on their story subject face to face. Los Angeles Correspondent Jeff Melvoin was especially enthusiastic: "I played every game I could get my hands on and dropped a fast $65 in the process." Chicago's Steven Holmes wrestled with several games and concluded: "My reflexes have improved, though I can't say my mind has expanded a whole...
...battle with the federal bureaucracy. Says Jackson: "I understood the hurdles that veterans face when their fears, and sometimes even their symptoms, aren't enough to get them satisfactory answers." The story brought some TIME reporters face to face with the generational ironies of the war. Correspondent Jeff Melvoin talked with a Navy veteran in Los Angeles who was his own age, 28: "I realized that at the same time I was flying to Harvard for my freshman year, he was on a ship steaming for Viet Nam." Atlanta Correspondent Anne Constable, who demonstrated against...
Reported by Jonathan Beaty, Steven Holmes and Jeff Melvoin, with U.S. bureaus...