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What confronts the customer at the stockroom counter is "16+5," a disturbing combination of bright purple and yellow, dull gold and dark purple lines. Five large squares emerge from a combination of the sixteen, hence the title...

Author: By Margaret Seaver, | Title: Unexpected Art in Unlikely Places | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...time of that nadir, Mancuso had a restocking process well under way. Months earlier, Mancuso's first important moves had been to hire Tanen and lure Producer John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) over to Paramount from Universal. Hughes' first feature for Paramount, Pretty in Pink, was released in February and has subsequently grossed $40 million. Hughes followed that up in June with Ferris Buehler's Day Off, which has since brought in $70 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Mancuso: Hollywood's Top Gun | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

Papailias led the Harvard effort, posting a 2-2 record. The losses were her first of the season after sixteen consecutive victories...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Penn, Columbia Have a Field Day: Harvard Fencers Lose Four Straight | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Sixteen minutes later, Ginzburg came out of the game after being shaken up on a scramble in front of the net--and hence was spared the humiliation heaped upon his back-up, Tom Phillips...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: UMass Booted Out of Town | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...invader is tiny, about one sixteen-thousandth the size of the head of a pin. It consists basically of a double-layered shell or envelope full of proteins, surrounding a bit of ribonucleic acid (RNA), the single-stranded genetic molecule, and often enters the bloodstream of its victim after sexual contact. It is an AIDS virus, and its intrusion does not go unnoticed. Scouts of the body's immune system, large cells called macrophages, sense the presence of the diminutive foreigner and promptly alert the immune system. It begins to mobilize an array of cells that, among other things, produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Research Spurs New Interest in Some Ancient Enemies | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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