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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerge when she decides not to give Elizabeth up for adoption--not a difficult decision, considering the frighteningly sober Minnesota hicks who want to adopt her. As J.C. tells Stephen (Harold Ramis), her yuppie love, she can't give up Elizabeth to a future of "frosted lipstick and Dairy Queen uniforms...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Baby Bummer | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...military strongman seized control hours after Governor-General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who represents Queen Elizabeth II in the former British colony, announced an interim solution to the Pacific island chain's political problems. Ganilau proposed a caretaker government consisting of all major political groups pending new elections. But Rabuka said he would accept nothing less than permanent political control by ethnic Fijians, who constitute 47% of the population while ethnic Indians make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiji: New Trouble In Paradise | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...FIRST day I visited some people, and learned about elementary school classmates. My first-grade homeroom has produced a certified color consultant, a PGA golf-tour hopeful, two or three nursing-school students, a future doctor, the homecoming queen and king, the captain of the high school varsity basketball team, and the president of the Future Homemakers of America (who happens to be male...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Coming Home | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...Griffin Dunne as an impish obstetrician who insists that his painted fist is a woman's newborn baby ("Wanna breast-feed him?"). But most find plenty of fun at show biz's expense. Movies: Amazon Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic Queen of Outer Space. Books: "Irving Sidney's" First Lady of the Evening, in which the President marries a hooker. TV: commercials for a synthetic hors d'oeuvre called Silly Pate and for the laundered lilt of Black Singer Don ("No Soul") Simmons. The whole thing has the offhand lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kentucky Fried Sequel | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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