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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown led, 26-21, at halftime, and marched 71 yards on the opening drive of the second half to score on a 1-yd. plunge by Badalato...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Stomps Cornell to Share Title | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...more than two decades, blacks in New York City watched longingly as African-American mayors took control of a score of major cities. Though they constituted Gotham's second largest ethnic group, blacks had not won a single citywide office. Last week they finally exulted in a triumph of their own. Drawing support from what he called a "gorgeous mosaic" of black, Hispanic and white voters, David Dinkins edged out former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani to succeed three-term Mayor Edward Koch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nice Guy Finishes First | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...intends to marry the adolescent. The vicomte too has his excuses. He is possessed by a passionate nature, the ill effects of which, it is implied, are also temporary. Give the kid some time, and he will probably turn out to be an admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign -- to bed a virtuous young wife, Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly) -- is not presented as idle and amoral womanizing but as proof of his capacity for authentic emotion. Too bad he has what we now are fond of calling "an intimacy problem," and, as a result, this affair and ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Valmont | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Starr, who assembled the soul group New Edition (from which the superlative Bobby Brown emerged), has the musical credentials that the Kids still lack. "Our first album was a Svengali-type situation," Jordan Knight concedes. "But on the second," Jon Knight adds, "we told him stuff we wanted. We're from the streets. We like music that is funky, with heavy bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fresh Faces from Beantown | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...other long-form programming. About half will be reruns (old series like The Dick Van Dyke Show); the other half, new fare from such creators as MTM Enterprises, which has signed on to develop series, and Ron Howard's Imagine Films Entertainment, which is producing a show with the Second City Comedy Troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Round-The-clock Yucks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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