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...they reduced much of the mud-and-brick oasis to rubble. As many as one-third of the Chadian government's 3,000 soldiers were reported to be dead, wounded or captured, and hundreds more were stranded in the north. Others, retreating before what the government called "murderous nonstop" Libyan air strikes, proceeded to set up a new defense line some 200 miles to the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: One for Gaddafi | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

Japan's No. 1 attraction is a nonstop mover and talker

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Little Girl at the TV Window | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

Beverly Sills, 54, director of the New York City Opera and retired diva, on the fact that she does not sing at all now, not even in the shower: "My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 18, 1983 | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...fresh out of the editing room. Ever since he saw the first episode in 1977, Clarke has been hooked on Lucas' special brand of magic. Says he: "Lucas seemed every bit as nervous about Jedi as he was about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife Marcia, an Oscar-winning film editor who helped cut Jedi, at their white Victorian mansion in nearby San Anselmo. Worrell also toured Skywalker Ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...first two weeks of its release, the movie Flashdance, an airheaded $8.5 million romance about a pretty Pittsburgh welder, earned $11.3 million and, more remarkably, for Paramount Pictures, improved its business the second week. The Flashdance LP, with ten songs from the film's nonstop pop-rock score, has sold 700,000 copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Manufacturing a Multimedia Hit | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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