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...Late in the season the rets aren't going to call as many penalties," MacDonald said. "So it's going to be a little tougher...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Extra-Man Handling | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...rest of the cast has a tougher time of it. It is not always that they are untalented; individually they no doubt can hold their own with the best. But when asked to play a crowd scene as a group of battle-weary marines, these hapless undergrads come closer to innocents abroad. They exude the same kind of pseudo-confidence with which teen-age virgin boys discuss...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: War Is Swell | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

Just getting tougher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests New Generation in the Streets | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

President Reagan appointed Perkins last September, and at the time blacks in both the U.S. and South Africa criticized the action as a symbolic step that was no more than an Administration attempt to sidetrack demands for tougher measures against Pretoria. Five months later Perkins, 58, is still trying to ignore the fanfare of his appointment and to burrow into the fabric of South African society -- especially black society. In the process, the U.S. embassy is cultivating black contacts as never before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Afirica New Man in the Townships | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...course, breaking into the political scene in a foreign country is tough--and tougher still if you're not a legal citizen of that country and don't have a visa. Obstacles abounded. Name recognition: zero. Political backing: zero. Funds: fifteen dollars...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: From Rusha With Love | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

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