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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright star in the whole movie is Wendt who plays the chubby neighbor with beautiful aloof poise. When Katt moves into the house, Wendt greets him by saying the old lady who lived there before was crazy. "The biggest bitch in the sky," Wendt sneers. "She was my aunt," Katt answers. "Heart of gold," Wendt comes back without pausing...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Remember What Mother Told You: Keep Away From House | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...which had clearly failed. Less than half a second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another 13 seconds, the external tank that fueled the orbiter's three main engines exploded in a catastrophic, fatal fireball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Questions Get Tougher | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...classic textbook game," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said afterwards. "One team pumped up sky high with nothing to lose and the other team with everything to lose. We were definitely ready and pumped up too, but we were nervous...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Cagers Nip Cornell in Tourney | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...problem, sir, maybe it will come to you later. Anyway, they have this plan that would knock the Ruskies' missiles right out of the sky...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Safety in Numbers | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Disneyland, which rank ahead of it, Heritage USA charges no admission. The grandiose 2,300-acre project, which is years away from completion, includes Bakker's Assemblies of God church, a 500-room luxury hotel, a mock turn-of-the-century mall with 25 boutiques under an artificial sky, and an amphitheater for staging passion plays and living Nativity spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Power, Glory - and Politics | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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