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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Harvey, that good old adorable 1940s comedy about a rich, eccentric family whose bachelor uncle thinks he sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Basic Bunny | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...Christopher's School in Richmond and owner of two Jeep Cherokees, the Japanese versions just do not have the oomph needed to haul his 3,000-lb. boat: "The Isuzu Trooper just couldn't pull it." Nor are the teeny trucks well suited to long-distance drives. Atlanta Salesman Stewart Powell, 25, describes a "miserable" 200-mile journey in his Samurai: "It's like driving a go-cart. On the highway the engine is really loud, and you feel like you're surrounded by tin." Then again, there is a downside to virtually all jeeps: four-wheel drive means lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Jeep Chic Shifts into High Four-wheelers are no longer just for macho men | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...these otherwise solid performances is the actors' tendency to adopt a certain gesture or mannerism and repeat it over and over, as if Director Fred Pletcher had told his cast that nervous tics make characters more human. As a result, Raphael slicks his hair back, Hurewitz stammers like James Stewart, Paulus taps her foot, Bader walks around with her hands folded in her lap, and Tolins picks the wax out of his ear with his pinky and bellows, "Hehhehhehheh," like Jackie Gleason snapping at Audrey Meadows. All this becomes annoying quickly...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Sam Enchanted Evening | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

University officials said they have no knowledge of the hearing. "They have not had the courtesy" to inform the university of the hearing, Stewart said...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Cornell Workers Agree on Contract | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...letter of October 13. The administration may have a policy against releasing statements justifying its disciplinary decision, and with evident reason. Yet in this case, in which the good faith of the University towards its Black members has been seriously impugned, there are compelling reasons for such a release. Stewart Gibson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Re: Reardon | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

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