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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with lots of women and say poignant things like, "It feels terrible to have no feelings." Tony has been placed in charge of both directing and dancing the lead role in a performance of Giselle which is to be filmed in Italy. The leading lady (Alessandra Ferri) is his mistress. The other female principal dancer, Nadine the acid-tongued misanthrope (Leslie Brown), is his former mistress. And now he has the hots for Lisa (Julie Kent), the long-legged wunderkind of the corps de ballet...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Giselle in Hell | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

...Tibbetts' co-defendants get long prison sentences, but the mastermind is found innocent by reason of insanity. A few years in a state hospital and he is once again stirring up trouble and profits as an arms dealer hiding in Morocco. By this time his former lover is the mistress of his former prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ends And Means OUTLAWS | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Young plays Susan Atwell, the mistress of Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman). Kevin Costner, this summer's hot man in the box office, co-stars as naval officer Tom Farrell. Tom and Susan meet at a hoity-toity Washington inauguration gala, but they've got better things to do and better places to do them--like the back seat of a limousine cruising around our nation's capitol. Sure enough, the sequence includes a nice, long shot of the Washington Monument...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: No Exit | 8/21/1987 | See Source »

Whitney's most meaningful cut has to be I Know Him So Well, a power-pop ballad from the Broadway-bound musical Chess, which she sings with her mother Cissy. In the song, a grandmaster's wife and mistress muse about being unable to fulfill his needs for fantasy and security; in this version, mother and daughter sing about a husband-father, and it makes for an electrifying duet. Throughout the album, the range and vocal glamour displayed offer testimony that Cissy's girl has grown up. Whitney marks graduation day for the prom queen of soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...State an example of architecture, in the classic style of antiquity." He used it (working from drawings) as the basis of the new Virginia state capitol in Richmond (1785-92). He visited Nimes in 1787 and contemplated its walls and portico, "gazing whole hours . . . like a lover at his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART A Plain, Exalted Vision | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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