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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days the life of recuperating Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 69, is more Hollywood soap opera than Greek tragedy. His countrymen are regaled almost daily with tattle about his highly public love affair with Olympic Airways flight attendant Dimitra Liani, 34, and contentious divorce from American wife Margaret, 64, after 37 years of marriage. Liani, not Margaret, tended his bedside during recent surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging It Out in Public: Papandreou's peccadilloes | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Foreign Ministry is headed by Shimon Peres, head of the left-leaning Labor Party, which has been more flexible on the issue of talking to the PLO than the right-wing Likud bloc led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir has ruled out any contact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Decision on PLO Surprises Israel | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...next time Wheel of Fortune star Pat Sajak appears on prime-time television, it might be Harvard's fault...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Designated Driving Comes to Prime-Time | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

...times per week this holiday season. The Project's public service ads will occupy air time that Winsten estimates is worth $100,000,000. In addition, Winsten persuaded 13 Hollywood television studios to include lines of dialogue encouraging use of the designated driver in the scripts of many prime-time shows...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Designated Driving Comes to Prime-Time | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

...shows including Wiseguy, Hunter, and Tattinger's have already included such lines in broadcast episodes, Winsten says, and 15 more shows have promised to do the same. In all, Winsten estimates two-thirds of the top 30 prime-time network shows will contain dialogue about drinking and driving. A few programs even plan to devote whole scenes or episodes to the topic, he says...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Designated Driving Comes to Prime-Time | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

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