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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been taking risks since he was born, in the town of Fontana Liri, near Rome, to a carpenter who eventually went blind and a housewife who eventually went deaf. ("They were like a comic couple," he notes.) When the German army occupied Italy, Marcello was sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cary Grant, Italian Style | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Herein lies one of the main problems with Baby Boom: it is filled with pejorative stereotypes. Granted, satire should use a broad brush, but the characters in this movie are simply not to be believed. Besides the Minnesota couple, there is a town full of crusty Vermonters who say little more than "Yup" and "Nope...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Baby Bummer | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...finds herself in bucolic unemployment in Vermont and soon in the arms of Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard), who accurately describes himself as "the only man in town under 60." Shepard spends his screen time looking befuddled, as if to ask, "Was there any reason I was cast in this film, other than that I am the only man in Hollywood with teeth as bad as Diane Keaton...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Baby Bummer | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

Approximately fifteen residents of Currier, North, and Cabot Houses met this week to organize the new journal, which they are considering calling "The Out of Town News and Literary Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Yorker-Like Journal To Hit Quad This Fall | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

Your dream continues. You're really enjoying it now. Bucknell, a well-respected Colonial League member, comes to town. Your team kills them. That Yohe fellow gets another bushelful of yards--in fact, he's probably on his way to a record season by now. You're off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 1980. You prepare to roll into Ithaca...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Joe Restic's Dream Season | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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