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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure that somebody down on the floor, upper level, probably could get something that today was worth maybe $800 to $1,000. If we hit the targets, it will be worth $3,000 in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If I Fail, I'm on the Hook: Ross Johnson | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Loos would not be surprised by her biographer's assessment. "It's always men who find The Women offensive," she said. "They don't want to believe that their wives and mothers and girlfriends can be so catty. But the cafe society and the Upper East Side spawned them in the hundreds. [The characters] were sketchy perhaps, but not untrue to what you overheard at Elizabeth Arden or in a fitting room at Bullock's Wilshire...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Konovalchik points to the large number of freshmen, the injuries in the upper weights, and the late return of former football players as potential pitfalls that barely hampered the Crimson in its opener...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Split to Open 1988-89 Season | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

Currently there is a sharp tilt to Social Security benefits, with lower-income workers getting a far heftier return on their payroll taxes than middle-and upper-income workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sources: Darman to Be Budget Director | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...movie begins just after the rape, as Sarah, her body bruised, her upper thighs scraped and bloody, bolts from the bar toward the nearest hospital. After more than an hour of legal and emotional skirmishing, in which a prosecutor (Kelly McGillis) decides to charge the men who stood by approvingly with criminal solicitation, the film climaxes with a depiction of the assault: Sarah's volcanic flirtation and the dreadful price she pays for it. "The film doesn't show bullets," says Foster, "just basic human cruelty -- what happens when people are in a room together. It's not inhuman, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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