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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRINCE has appeared in three movies in his short cinematic career which have run the gamut of praise (or lack of praise) depending on how much music he performs on the silver screen...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Says Honey Schnapp, a silver-haired shopper, "I guess I shop here because I trust the stuff they sell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selling Whole Wheat Against the Grain | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...those airlines. One bit of suspicious evidence has already turned up: apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it discovered traces of the drug in the blood and urine of Pilot Steve Silver, whose Continental Express commuter plane crashed in January near Durango, Colo., killing nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Small Craft, High Anxiety | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...David Silver, as the diarist narrator, with his sheared hair, unshaven face and ripped pajamas, appears a convincing lunatic. Moreover, he delivers his many long monologues with the curious self-absorption of a madman, drawing the audience into his twisted world where dogs write letters, the earth is crashing into the moon and a Russian bureaucrat can discover that he's actually the king of Spain. As he loses himself more and more in his delusions, the real pain behind his situation becomes clear, and the audience realizes that class boundaries separate him forever from the general's daughter with...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Wins by A Nose | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...style and egocentricities survive wherever easy money, ambition and ideas flourish. Lofty mindedness and low animal cunning rarely had a better stage on which to interact. As Simon puts it, "The susurrus of silks dragging through pools of blood, chivalric elegance living with bestiality in high places, the silver rose boxed with the dagger, fidelity bedded with perfidy, remain a collage whose fascination has never quite faded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Godfathers a Renaissance Tapestry: the Gonzaga of Mantua | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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