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The big picture is bright in Tinseltown. Scoring its best summer season ever, the movie industry racked up a record $1.6 billion in ticket sales. That nosed out the previous mark of $1.58 billion achieved in 1984. Back then it was a handful of such blockbusters as Indiana Jones and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERTAINMENT: Hooray for Hollywood! | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

McEwan bridges the chasm between private anguish and public policy with a death-defying story, inventive, eventful and affirmative without being sentimental. Entwined with the Lewises' tragedy is the tale of Stephen's friend Charles Darke, a former editor and, as a junior minister, author of a hard-nosed government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbeats the Child in Time | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

The central fiction about the hard-cover repackaging of Answered Prayers is the presumption that it is a novel, unfinished or otherwise. Rather, it is an act of merchandising that will divert attention from A Capote Reader, a generous collection of traditional fiction and imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now, the Fictional Non-Novel ANSWERED PRAYERS | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

In mid-July on a tidal creek among Georgia's coastal islands, six people ceremoniously untied the gates of an underwater pen that for the previous 28 days had contained two very civilized bottle-nosed dolphins. The finny pair disappeared from view. Moments later they surfaced upstream, defying predictions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Joe And Rosie Go for It | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

A master of self-deprecation, Bragg calls himself the "big-nosed bastard from Barking." In person last Thursday, he looked handsome and healthy, not in the least worn out by his heavy tour schedule. And, as in concert, he provide to be a compulsive communicater, speaking rapidly in his gruff...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Sizing Up a Genuine Bragg-Art | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

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