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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roguish stars, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, shine as the Jones boys in the latest of George Lucas' crusading adventures, kicking off this summer of sequels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 22 MAY 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

MISS FIRECRACKER. Holly Hunter reprises her stage role as a lovelorn orphan determined to win a beauty contest. Mary Steenburgen and Alfre Woodard also shine in Beth Henley's comedy about the danger of holding on to youthful dreams and the liberating effect of letting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Papandreou, the government, democracy and the independence of the country" to restore a "regime of dependence and subjugation." In fact, declared Papandreou, "not a trace of the mud flying from all sides touches me." He went on to claim that he had spared no effort in making the "truth shine." Finally, said the Prime Minister, as an "offended citizen," he had authorized his lawyers to file a suit against TIME in Greece and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece No Mud Touches Me | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...trouble with a Golden Age is that nobody sees the sheen and shine until years later. In Hollywood's case, it was many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: 1939: Twelve Months of Magic | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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