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Shortly after a home-made bomb was discovered in the Boston Garden Monday before an exhibition hockey game between the Bruins and the Russian National Hockey Team, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz set up his one-man picket outside the arena...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Law Professor Holds Maverick Picket At Soviet Hockey Game | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

Teaching is for teachers, not for students," Crisp adds during his one-man show, An Evening With Quentin Crisp. "It's a way of renewing yourself every day before a captive audience...

Author: By Emily J. M. knowlton, | Title: Marquis de Style | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...Newton man who works with the mentally ill has visited Harvard and several other Boston-area schools in the last two weeks on a one-man mission to encourage people to hold "peace vigils" during next week's summit meeting in Geneva...

Author: By Rodney J. Brown, | Title: Campus Peace Vigils Urged | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

Former ComputerLand executives insist that Millard's imperiousness created his company's troubles and led to his downfall. Says Henry Fiur, a senior vice president from September 1983 to March 1984: "There wasn't the possibility of democracy at ComputerLand. It was a one-man show." Franchisees voice similar complaints. Says William Sadowski, who operates three + ComputerLand stores in suburban Chicago: "It's because of Bill's arrogance that all the problems came about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...First Blood, the unappreciated Rambo was goaded into waging a one-man war against National Guardsmen in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. In the sequel, after a stretch in prison, he moves from a surrogate Viet Nam to the real thing. At the request of his former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outbreak of Rambomania | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

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