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Like Oliver Stone, Dye is a decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: How the War Was Won | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Splish! Splash! Takin' a Bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard is a preeminent institution. Cases atother institutions don't make the same splash,"said White Professor of Biological ChemistryManfred L. Karnovsky...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Med School Dean Issues Letter on Research Fraud | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...first false diamonds, sculpted from crystal, appeared in the 1600s in France. In Britain, Prince Albert's death in 1861 prompted a grieving Queen Victoria to proclaim that only black jewelry would be considered proper, making black glass jewels temporarily popular among aristocrats. French Designer Coco Chanel made a splash by wearing rhinestones and faux pearls during the Roaring Twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only Your Jeweler Knows for Sure | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...always done her overbearing best to be a huge success, Media Diva Grace Jones decided to go for maximum splash when it came time to make the video for her new song, I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You). In the $250,000 video out this week, she gets her lanky legs waxed, dunks herself in a milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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