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Harvard and Cambridge police spokesman said late last night that they were unaware of the death, as did Preston K. Munter, director of the Law School Health Services...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Law Student Found Dead In Apartment | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...School of the Arts will be renamed in honor of the donors. Laurence Tisch, chairman of NYU's board of trustees, and his brother, Preston Robert Tisch, who have both given money to the school in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Arts Grant | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

With a wry smile, Preston Davenport 78, looks over the dwindling crowd. In 35 Octobers here, his Ayrshires and Holsteins have won a slew of blue ribbons, anc he has come to know a thing or two abou fairgoers. "Everyone has been saying how much they are going to miss it," he says quietly. "But, you'll see. In a month or so they'll be onto something else." That is the comfort of progress-and its regrettable price. -By Joelle Attinger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: A Fair Goes Dark | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires of the endless string of tall stories and short-people jokes. Like Honky Tank Freeway, this movie is in desperate need of an ace farceur like Preston Sturges-and a niggardly accountant to ride herd on ballooning budgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...enormous logjam of talented actors out there," Kasdan says, "and precious few of them have good parts to chew on." Body Heat is full of meaty characters and pungent performances-Ted Danson as a tap-dancing prosecutor, J.A. Preston as a dogged detective, and especially Mickey Rourke as a savvy young ex-con who looks and acts as if he could be Ned's sleazier twin brother. Kathleen Turner's Matty mixes come-hither looks with a sultry, baritone voice. This is a creature of fire and ice, with no intermediate shadings of warmth or aloofness. Thanks largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Torrid Movie, Hot New Star | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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