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...best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief. They are terribly earnest, terribly sincere and just plain terrible. If it really is hip to be square, the Oil City Symphony is further along the cutting edge than the Talking Heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Last week the game came to a sudden end, the result, said Brigadier General Ramon Montano of the capital's defense command, of "plain detective work." As darkness fell on Las Villas de Valle Verde, an exclusive residential park in suburban Manila, 35 soldiers raided a town house in the enclave. Battering in windows and pounding their automatic rifles against walls, the squad rounded up the elusive Honasan and three associates as some of them relaxed over a meal. Some soldiers in the raiding party saluted as their captive was led away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Roundup of an Elusive Renegade | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...which has worked for or supported the proposal, he implies that the Undergraduate Council has used the issue for political motives. This conclusion is based upon a misunderstanding of the nature of the plan outlined by the council, and a line of reasoning which rambles from irrelevant facts to plain silliness. Worst of all, he ignores the facts in denying the importance of condoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condoms | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...must reject him because she believes love must be entirely unselfish. For their part, the soldiers lust after all the ladies, who have abandoned the boastful Bunthorne to pine away over consummately cool Archibald. Poor Bunthorne's one remaining admirer is the one woman he can't stand--the plain Lady Jane, brilliantly portrayed as an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual groupie by Alida Griffith...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Ginsberg and Sullivan | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...change of pace from the immense and ornate halls of the Kremlin to the small, simple rooms of the White House is apt to please him. He does not like ostentation. So the Reagan folks will ply their important visitor with plain native dishes like Maryland crab and pumpkin pie. CIA analysts believe Gorbachev's alimentary canal can handle even Reagan's favorite, macaroni and cheese. But will he be able to digest the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle, who is scheduled to attend the state dinner? In Geneva, Gorbachev cooled at the sight of Perle, the former Assistant Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Sizing Up the Opposition | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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