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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends for a "last hurrah together" before plunging into the professional world. No, he and his friends will not be walking on the Champs Elysee this summer. They'll be hiking along China's Great Wall. Not because they prefer Chinese food, but because, as Levy says, "the terrorist stuff pushed us eastward...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

Rosenberg says she has heard that the Expo is already drawing as many as 100,000 visitors a day, but the crowds won't deter Roberts and her from going. "I'm expecting lines and stuff," she says. "We'll just end up meeting more people...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...private meeting with Powers after we brought in the negotiating committee, but we got what we were asking for," says Blackman. Another waitress criticized Bozzotto for not visiting the dining halls enough. "He likes the media and the publicity, more than the day-to-day stuff," she says...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Laboring Against Mass Hall | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...been acting almost since she could walk. Her parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, are actors, and she was seven when she played her first movie role, a kid eating a banana ice-cream cone in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Not much emoting was necessary, but subtle stuff was going on among the other actors, and 19 retakes were required. That meant licking 19 banana cones. Yuck! Acting was tougher than she had thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...process of depreciation" in Bleak House, was the poet Leigh Hunt. A boasting letter from Charles Dickens is exhibit A: "The likeness is astonishing. I don't think it could be more like (Hunt) himself." Dickens tempered his Victorian portrait with humor, but George Eliot was made of sterner stuff. Apologizing to a clergyman who had recognized an unflattering likeness in Scenes of Clerical Life, she explained that she had thought he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations the Originals | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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