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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 13, 1983 | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Penn is not a community--it's a resource center. It's a focused singular environment where people come in and take what they want, and then they leave," Cooper says, adding that if students can find their own niche--she points to the increasing popularity of the college houses and Penn's 30 fraternities and sororities as examples of students seeking a sense of community--"Penn gets smaller, and better...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: The Sum of the Parts? | 5/13/1983 | See Source »

...simply smuggle their money out. "Just walk with your head high and the bills stuffed in your pockets. The customs agents won't think to look there." Although Frenchmen can usually be counted upon to find ways around restrictions, the latest curbs were not a joke but a singular admission that the Socialist government's economic program was failing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Great Vacation Flap | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...town college? Name one, sweetheart, and I'll get you right in. A diaphragm? Of course, precious. I'll ask your mother to pick one up for you on the avenue while she's out shopping." Greenfield's oscillation between third and first person is singular without being wholly successful, but he manages that most difficult recipe: a blend of acrimony, humor, regret and hope. Soothing it's not; memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Mar. 21, 1983 | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...singular stoop that forces his chin down, perhaps the result of an injury. Part of his right eyebrow is missing. His voice is middle range. He does not appear weak, nor does he appear robust. He has a gracious manner with strangers. His handclasp is firm, his hair gray. He is less bulky than the stereotyped Soviet leader, but not thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Getting to Know Andropov | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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