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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adler is particularly critical of the extra difficulty "public figures" have in winning libel suits. This inspired her critics to shish Adler with her own kebob stick. Why? Well, before either the Westmoreland or Sharon trial began, Adler filed a libel suit against the Washington Journalism Review...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: A Full Court Press | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...butter." Not surprisingly, the term brothel attracts her attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with new eyes: "Don't cross your bridges till you come to them is my motto, though how you can cross a bridge before coming to it I've never properly understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow the Pianoplayers | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting debut in Betty Blue, a steamy art flick by Diva Director JeanJacques Beineix, caused a sensation in France. Dalle is not overly impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important than her beauty," he says. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1986 | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...shall stand, thank you," said Bok. "And as for what I think, I think you are somewhat lacking in severity on those who choose to stick "Kick Me" signs on the back of college presidents. You might also have something in the new policy for a Dean of Students who obeys those signs...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Lords of Discipline | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...crew-cut sadist, blends the laughs and screams with a beguiling creepiness. Something Wild boasts cameo spots by Directors John Sayles and John Waters, as well as a cute turn by the moms of Demme and David Byrne (who wrote and sings the opening song). These badges of hipness stick out like a designer label stitched on an old pair of jeans. The film causes no tremors, only a hemi-Demme-semiquav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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