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...Cosby brownstone, in Manhattan's East 60s, is similar to the one inhabited by TV's Huxtables but more distinctively furnished: with Persian carpets, mahogany sculptures and displays of exotic cut flowers. Cosby invites a stranger to the town house only when his wife and five children are away. He is fiercely protective of their privacy; they decline all requests for interviews. It is known that Son Ennis, 18, is studying prelaw at a black college in the South near his sister Erinn, 20, who studies psychology. Eldest Daughter Erika, 22, is an aspiring artist, painting in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...feelings, too, and to suddenly spend less than 100 percent of one's free time with them is liable to cause misunderstandings and hurt feelings. And imagine how embarassed one would be to come shamefacedly back into the fold after having caught a lethal venereal disease from a "friendly" stranger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Derek Bok's Harvard | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Abboud is no stranger to failures, bailouts or controversy. At First Chicago in the late 1970s, he helped the bank recover from a string of bad real estate loans. But associates complained that Abboud was autocratic and contributed to flagging morale. In 1980 the bank's board ousted him. Abboud soon became president of Occidental, only to resign in 1984 after policy clashes with Chairman Armand Hammer. Since then, Abboud has run his own investment firm near his home in the posh Chicago suburb of Barrington. His reputation for toughness lingers, however, and Abboud seems to revel in it. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Cavalry | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...application, I wouldn't get the job." Unwilling to settle into retirement, Clark registered with an Atlanta agency that found enough temporary jobs to keep him steadily employed. Last year, while working on the production line at a tea-packing company, he asked a well-dressed stranger who wandered by how he could get a permanent job. The stranger, who turned out to be the president of the company, hired him full time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Work Ethic Lives! | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...luck changes when a Clint Eastwood-esque stranger named Gun (Tsutomu Yamazaki) struts into her restaurant. She entreats him to teach her the finer points of noodle cooking. He consents, and puts her on a rigorous training regimen. He assembles, Seven Samurai-style, a group of gourmands to educate her in each different aspect of noodle cooking...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: Tampopo | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

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