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"You movie people, you're a bunch of spoiled brats!" yells a man whose car has just been rammed by a star's convertible. Yes, we nod in agreement, and they're phony too, and beneath the glamour not very happy. Tales from the Hollywood Hills, a trio of short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tinsel And Truth TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

"The power play is an area where everyone thought we'd be weak," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "We've been spoiled with the power play we've had. You've got to do well in that area if you want to be successful."

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Bombard Brown, 5-0, in Regular-Season Opener | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

It's drumsticks at 20 paces and no chickening out as Dinah Shore and Frank Perdue square off in what history may record as the Great American Chicken War. Looking to outstrut each other as they winged into New York City last week, both hawked new supermarket products -- cooked chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: They're Fencing Beak to Beak | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

John Kennedy likewise used a rudimentary recording system. The tapes from such dramatic conversations as his telephone showdown with Governor Ross Barnett during the Ole Miss desegregation crisis provide historians with raw data that is even more gripping than most old letters. But Richard Nixon spoiled it all by going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: History Without Letters | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

"It was strange, thought Alice, how little nationality or civil status mattered in a heatwave." Remarks like that, the hallmark of Francoise Sagan's simple, wayward charm, occur often enough to make this slight tale worth a couple of summer hours. Maybe it should be read at night, out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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