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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, I could move my bed, but that would only partly cure my disappointment with the "spectacular" Quad renovations...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: A Little Plaster for Your Dreams | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...spectacular sequence, a C3PO-style robot is reconstituted into a rock band -- the leg becomes a guitar, the torso a drum set -- and Jackson kicks into high gear with his We Are Here to Change the World, an up-tempo anthem. Laser beams shoot into the theater; orange light splashes off the rear wall. It is quite a workout. Or, as Producer Lemorande notes, "it's a very dense 17 minutes. It's like desserts. They're so small because they're so rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...additional IL-2, but only about a tenth as much as in the LAK treatments. As a result, few serious side effects were apparent. With the addition of cyclophosphamide, a drug that Rosenberg believes suppresses immune-system cells that might otherwise impede the TIL cells, the treatment achieved its spectacular success rates. Most important, the combined therapy cured mice of advanced colon cancers that in parallel animal experiments had withstood the LAK cells. Can TIL immunotherapy work in humans? "There are some questions," says Dr. Alexander Fefer, a University of Washington researcher who has pioneered in the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Weapon in the Cancer War? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical, which is due to preview next month in Baltimore and open in New York City this November. "A long haul," says Hamlisch, who has been working on the $4 million song-and-dance spectacular for four years. "It's frustrating when you think you have it all together, then you see it in workshop and have to rework it. For the first time now, I can relax a little bit because I think it's all there. We'll know after five weeks in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1986 | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Apparently the vino went down too well among the members of the Class of '56 meeting there last night. With time to kill until the Stadium spectacular-and the wine bottles likely long empty-they adopted the following resolution...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Food, Glorious Food | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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