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...once dreary downtown area has become slick and modern. Gleaming office towers, as well as a sports arena and an expanded convention center, decorate the skyline. A street paved with red bricks winds around venerable Monument Circle, lending new stateliness to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument with its slender 284-ft. limestone shaft. Indianapolis is feeling major league, and its residents have ample reason for civic pride. "The excitement here reminds me of Atlanta in the early '70s," says Charles Blair, 36, a senior program officer for the Lilly Endowment, which gives about $20 million annually for city improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India-no-place No More | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...gave all he had, and just like him, I'm going to give all I have. I'm sure I have baseball in my blood, but I also like it. I'm not replacing my father, just starting off where he did." Young Clemente is slender but looks strong, maybe 5 ft. 11 in., maybe 170 lbs., and he is specific about his position. "I'm a rightfielder," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Trying Time for Rookies | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids, let's put the show on right here!"-is buttressed with motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. That is a lot of weight for a slender teen pic to carry, and this one sinks under the load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...

Author: By Stuart A. Angang, | Title: Hold the Commentary | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...slalom, just the third Alpine medal collected by an American male in ten Games over 44 years; none has ever won a gold. In 1980 he finished behind the regal Swede Ingemar Stenmark, who also won the giant slalom. Slaloming is weaving through a course described by slender flagpoles. The giant slalom combines all this sideways whooshing with the third Alpine skiing discipline, downhill racing. While Phil also braves the downhill, he has basically followed the concentrated swerves of Stenmark, who has made slalom skiing more than just a specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Success Is All in the Family | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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