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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diplomats seem to prefer the Economist's diary, a popular datebook in the movie industry is LeBook Los Angeles, which for $28.50 offers 116 pages of local services ranging from art galleries to auto rentals. Its publisher, Citrus House, also sells a national LeBook containing the basic rundown on 36 of the most visited cities in the U.S. This year LeBook contains a guide to the Olympic Games...
From the first view of a rundown kitchen, complete with refrigerator and green plastic chairs, director R.J. Cutler and set designer Peter Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than...
Purchasing a rundown farm as their live-in headquarters, the women, representing about 20 organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Boston's Women Against Militarism, banned men from entering their camp and hung out decorated pillowcases on which political slogans were scrawled (I DREAM OF A UNITED SISTERHOOD). Some walked arm in arm around the camp, occasionally embracing...
...agents waited and watched for days outside a rundown apartment building in Washington, D.C. Finally, at 10 p.m. last Thursday, their chance came. Clelia Eleanor Quinonez, 53, surrounded by three of her captors, walked out of the building and across the street to a phone booth, where she was to call her husband and assure him that she was unharmed. The agents moved in swiftly, arrested the trio and freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising...
...Sixty Minutes and Dan Rather, telecasting outtakes from unedited CBS interviews. Last month a new E.T. investigative team did a four-part feature about the National Enquirer that was both balanced and informative. That same team is currently working on a report called "Where Does Your Money Go?," a rundown on where your $5 movie-ticket price goes...