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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madjid help out a starving, sobbing woman by taking her to a camper park and finding her pathetic customers, while she leaves her toddler son alone to play. Although at first the boys do this for their own profit, they end up giving her all of the money for her child. The sight of the ravaged, ordinary, decent woman is horrifying enough even without any in-depth development of her character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Looking | 8/12/1986 | See Source »

...after it was resold. Today, after more than 20 buyouts, the four partners are worth an estimated $150 million to $500 million each. A fifth partner, Paul Raether, 39, joined the firm in April. Kravis, the only member of the group with any visibility, lives in a $5.5 million Park Avenue apartment, collects 19th century British oil paintings and serves on the board of the New York City Ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barons of the Big Buyout | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland's Measure for Measure turn the chaste novice nun Isabella into a marriage-minded maiden, winking at having got her man, as New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp did last summer in Central Park. The result is that Ashland's interpretations are rarely revelatory -- but just as rarely misguided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Only 2,500 Miles From Broadway | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Manhattan, the island borough of 34 square miles, the city that gave us gridlock, each day invites in 877,000 motorists and then does not let them park. Over our coffee we trade hints on what it is not too illegal to do with our delivery trucks there. We tell tales of cabbies and their refreshing obscenities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Hard Driving | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Decorating the park will be the winner of a Cambridge Arts Council contest. They chose the creation of local artist Carlos Dorrien, who made a granite sculpture "shaped like an imaginary cornerstone, like an archaeological remnant," said Lori Poklop of the Cambridge Arts Council...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Area Parks Receive Verdant Makeover | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

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