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...these two were not so smashing, someone might have wondered what a prom was doing in the middle of the Olympics, or whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Something to Shout About | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider--he has as many wants as a child on Santa's knee. He is overjoyed when Dorothy's talents land them in the Los Angeles fast lane, yet he wants more, and throws petulant tantrums...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

Ducks, it is also true, has done an admirable job in making sure his increased security efforts in areas frequented by students will not be interpreted negatively on campuses. He himself made numerous visits to high schools and colleges during prom and graduation time last spring urging students to refrain from drinking and driving. Last week, he summoned student leaders and media from campuses across the state to explain how and why drunk driving roadblocks and police patrols would be increased around college campuses...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: A Broken Promise | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...views of men voters and the increasingly sizable body of women voters-rang out as the theme of the convention, set to a Texas mariachi beat. The delegates, most of them Congresswomen, state officials and activists, found that women's status as this year's pre-election prom queen was a lot more fun than last year's post-ERA role as wallflower. It was, for one thing, the first time since the Caucus was founded twelve years ago that the guys had come to their party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting a Gender Message | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...personality has been threatening to go splitsville ever since he was saddled with the alter ego of Clark Kent, ace reporter and consummate nerd of the Daily Planet. Clark is every clumsy, sweet-souled teen-age boy who ever fantasized scoring the big touchdown or scoring with the prom queen; Superman is the 6-ft. 4-in. embodiment of that dream. This man is both men, hulk and hunk, and no telephone booth is big enough to house the inherent contradictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goodness at the Crossroads | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

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