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...touched upon a menu of issues, including French complaints about high exchange rates and the burgeoning U.S. deficit. Despite the language barrier, the two men got along well, exchanging cheerful banter while photographers clicked away. As bulbs flashed, Mitterrand noted wryly to Reagan that "George Washington faced a much quieter life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hail the Beleaguered Hero | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...desperate recitative interplay with the seducer himself. Junior Jeanine Bowman's Zerlina complements the other two women with her performance as an innocent country maiden, who almost falls into Giovanni's web Less emotional and more straightforward than Anna or Elvira. bowman's Zerlina is delightful with her quieter yet charming voice that reveals her character's naivete and dedication to her country bumpkin of a finance...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Opera Gigolo | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...There is [now] a quiet but deeper effort at practical ways of helping others," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps Ill. "It is quieter, but only compared to the '60s. That period can now be seen as really exceptional...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Doing Unto Others | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

Outside the U.S., some 600 of the 707s will go on plying foreign air lanes, hauling cargo and carrying jet-about sheiks from the oil capitals of the world. But big U.S. airlines like TWA are flying more fuel-efficient and quieter planes like the Boeing 747 and the new Boeing 757. Meanwhile, the prototype for the 707 waits patiently outside Tucson, Ariz., for the day when it will be moved into the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell Flight | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...seen a lot of hungry students come and go in 20 years. "It was tough in the '60s," says Mr. B. "I found it scary knowing that some of the kids eating in my place were the same ones who were rioting a block away." Today's customers are quieter and more subdued, he says, and usually eat in two's and three's instead of large groups...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Cooking Up Hamburgers For Two Generations | 9/22/1983 | See Source »

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