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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blackman can work some magic with his secondary and offensive line--and he has always had a reputation for pulling off the unexpected--Cornell could threaten for all the marbles. Right now, however, the Big Red look a little thin to maintain consistency over the grueling ten-game slate, which includes formidable Rutgers as an adversary. The Crimson will have the good fortune of catching Cornell the week after the Big Red's showdown with the Scarlet Knights...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...like World War II itself, The Big Red One is somehow more accessible than the Vietnam War as portrayed in Apocalypse Now and even more personal than the achingly personal story of The Deer Hunter. There are good guys and bad guys and there is a line, however thin, between killing and murdering. Through the entire war, Marvin and his men stubbornly survive, eerily recalling the words of Coppola's Colonel Kilgore: "Someday, this war's gonna...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Simon & Schuster, went over the manuscript before it was sent to Betty Prashker, a top editor at Doubleday, which publishes Talese. Prashker says that Talese was not thin-skinned about taking editorial advice, but adds enigmatically: "Grammar is not etched in marble." Perhaps not; neither should it be polymorphously perverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Decline of Editing | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...their margins in many are so thin that this fall they could lose control of the majority of the chambers for the first time since the New Deal. This is an especially ominous prospect for the Democrats, since legislators elected Nov. 4 will draw new lines for their own and congressional districts based on results of the 1980 census?and Republicans are as skilled as Democrats in gerrymandering districts to ensure the maximum number of future seats for their party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Running Tough | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...referring to the way in which the issue of Jerusalem has assumed center-stage attention in the Palestinian autonomy talks between Israel and Egypt. He could just as easily have meant the way in which the Middle East peace process is faltering. Patience among many protagonists is wearing thin, and the forces of extremism on both sides again appear to be in the ascendancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Mood of Defiance | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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