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Sometimes the ads are quirkily self-conscious. "Ahem," began one suitor in the New York Review of Books. "Decent, soft-spoken sort, sanely silly, philosophish, seeks similar." Then he started to hit his stride: "Central Jersey DM WASP professional, 38, 6 ft.2", slow hands, student of movies and Marx, gnosis and news, craves womanish companionship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Advertisements for Oneself | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...literally the answer to a maiden's prayer. With Carter Crick laid waste by evil strip miners, young Megan (Sydney Penny) kneels over her martyred pooch and begs God for "a miracle" to save her mother (Carrie Snodgress), her mom's suitor (Michael Moriarty) and what is left of the settlement. Dissolve to Clint on horseback. He saves the good folks, kills the bad folks, dodges a mother-daughter rivalry for his affections and ends up in a showdown ^ with a gunslinger (John Russell) who is even gaunter than Clint. You could hibernate in Russell's cheek hollows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Sideshows of Summer | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...month Ronald Reagan had been playing something of an unaccustomed role: the overanxious suitor. At nearly every opportunity, he betrayed his eagerness to meet with his Soviet counterpart. Two days after Mikhail Gorbachev was named Soviet Communist Party leader, Reagan invited him to a tete-a-tete in the U.S. The President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Air After Moscow's Gambit | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Shark Repellent. Any measures that a company uses to fend off a would-be acquirer, or shark. Typical repellents include changes in a firm's bylaws to make it extremely difficult for an unwanted suitor to gain control. Among the most popular in recent years has been a requirement that a merger must be approved by at least 75% of the shareholders before it can take effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Terms of Enchantment | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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