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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the years, marine mammals have become big box office. Around the U.S., amusement parks and aquariums pack spectators into dolphin and killer-whale shows. Companies have organized whale-watching voyages and party-boat trips to feed wild dolphins. One promoter has even proposed an underwater birthing facility where dolphins would serve as "midwives" for human deliveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: An Uneasy Dip with the Dolphins | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...cartoon Oliver & Company) in the story of Charlie, a German shepherd who is reprieved from death and befriends a little girl kidnaped by his scurvy old gang. Visually, the picture is swathed in Bluth's trademark golden browns and moody blues. Aurally, it's a reunion of the Burt Pack: Burt Reynolds is the voice of Charlie, Loni Anderson is the moll Flo, the exuberantly flustered Dom DeLuise is Charlie's pal Itchy. All Dogs dawdles a bit, but it offers the requisite charm and a poignant moral: some things, like friendship and honor, are worth dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...sofa in a Manhattan TV studio, making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried to pack the Supreme Court. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Talks nonstop about himself. F.D.R.: no. Sims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Round-The-clock Yucks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...that the abortion issue cuts evenly along partisan lines. Not all Democrats are pro-choice; not all Republicans are pro-life. Senator Bob Pack- wood (R--Oregon), for example, laments how his party has associated itself so strongly with anti-abortion views, leaving itself vulnerable to a shift in public opinion. "Unless our party changes its position," he told the New York Times this week, "we're going to lose more elections...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: A Slam-Dunk for the Democrats | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

...brother I never had," says Hall. "We share intimate secrets. We cry together. There's no competitiveness between us. When I called and told him I had been signed by Paramount, he couldn't have been happier." Though Hall has been linked with Murphy's so-called black pack -- a group of young black performers and filmmakers, among them actor-directors Robert Townshend and Keenen Ivory Wayans -- Hall says the others are only casual friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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