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Not so long ago he might have had a sticker plastered over his mouth that read PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED, but Richard Pryor, 43, the incendiary comic who in 1980 turned himself into a human torch while free-basing cocaine, is now host of a children's show called Pryor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1984 | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Spunky, savvy and high tech, U.S. cyclists go into top gear

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Pushing Their Pedals to the Medals | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Today the Continent is flooded with IBM computers, Matsushita video recorders and Boeing jetliners. Here and there, innovative Europeans armed with breakthrough discoveries and marketing savvy have elbowed their way into lucrative new fields. But those modest inroads have failed to hide a painful reality: Western Europe has been caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Back in a Critical Race | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

In recent days Thatcher's lieutenants have been forced to come to her defense and counter charges that she lacks savvy political advisers and will not tolerate any view different from her own. "She does listen," insisted House of Commons Leader John Biffen. The Prime Minister leaves no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Long Summer of Discontent | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

The rewards of all the wit and work are now plentiful: for one thing, she is the only female in a seditious cabal called the American Academy of Humor Columnists, whose other members are Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Gerald Nachman and Don Ross, and whose sole function is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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