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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure Ron wishes he could, too," says Willie. "But some things are beyond the power of modern medicine...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Coffee at the U.N. | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...hope this will provide [Harvard students] with a behind-the-scenes look [at modern films]," said Andrea L. Campbell '88, Theatricals producer. Campbell also said that the the Pudding developed the directors series to recognize directors' contributions to the film industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Director Yates To Preview `Suspect' | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

Dancers--said synthesis--has even been directed by Herbert Ross, whose 1977 The Turning Point accrued 11 Academy Award nominations. But in this endeavor, something seems drastically awry as Ross tries to translate the classical plot of Giselle into a modern-day romance between Baryshnikov and a 17-year-old siren...

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

Tunnel of Love doesn't deal with the topics the Boss has already tackled repeatedly--hard times, hard work and hard playing. As the title reveals, Tunnel of Love is about love and romance and working it out, a topic which AIDS, herpes and everything else about post-modern existence have brought back into vogue...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Married in the U.S.A. | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

...only the major event in the lives of one-third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world, but which virtually demands a re-evaluation of the nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast, how could any list of the century's greatest events include Lindbergh's flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Really Mattered | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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