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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of miss the excitement of those times when you had to read a book in a certain time because you knew others were waiting for it," he recalls...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: The Odyssey of a B-School Student | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...Miss Hayworth is not unappreciative of her potent effect on males. One of her prime functions, Rita thinks, is to be glamorous. Says she: "After all, a girl is-well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1941: Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...imagined. They trace a curve of achievement, not a jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that amounted, one by one, to an epic saga of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a sum greater than the number of its parts. Though TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art and Its Rewards: Some Creators who Made News that Stayed News | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Titled Ms. after the movement's preferred form of female address (instead of Mrs. or Miss), the magazine seems to have a lot of New York's clubby, with-it intensity but not enough of its firecracker prose or provocative flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS 1971: For the Liberated Female: Ms. Magazine | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...judge, found her guilty. Miss Rand thereupon stood on her head in payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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