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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Science Center basement two people stood in line in front of me. When it was my turn, the man behind the counter started closing the big gray door...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: A Tale of Angst and Oreos | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Around mid-January, every conversation in the dining hall, in the Widener stacks or on the streets would turn to theses. The phenomenon could best be called the senior version of the freshman what'syournamewhereareyoufromwhatdormareyou in dialogue. It goes along these lines...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: A Tale of Angst and Oreos | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled several hundred memoirs. "Who wants to see some dame go blind and die?" asked Jack Warner when Davis said she wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: 1939: Twelve Months of Magic | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...short, 1-2-3 backers are not seeking to charitably introduce some tenants to the joys of homeownership, but, rather, to unload buildings which do not turn enough of a profit...

Author: By Stacie Marinelli, | Title: A Crippling Blow to Rent Control | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

BACKERS of 1-2-3 offer us Propositions 1 and 2, which would eliminate rent-controlled units through sales and decimate housing subsidy programs, and then hope we will believe Proposition 3 will make everything turn out all right...

Author: By Stacie Marinelli, | Title: A Crippling Blow to Rent Control | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

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