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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each time they shot the sequence, Bergman was dissatisfied. Finally, 13 omelettes later, Josephson grew so weary and upset that he gave the performance the director wanted...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Swede Memories | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...more embarrassed than upset," Greene said. "In the shower I tried to gather myself together. When I realized that I was in eighth place in a competition I should have been winning, I realized there was nothing left to lose...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Nothing More Than a Fluke Dive | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...scene was reminiscent of the '60s, but this time the sit-in was peaceful and the administration sympathetic. Upset by recent racial incidents, including an alleged attack by five white students on two blacks, nearly 200 minority students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst took over the school's Afro-American Center for 5 1/2 days and demanded greater efforts to fight campus racism. Last week, after 14 hours of negotiations with University Chancellor Joseph Duffey, the protest ended when Duffey agreed to many demands, including a new disciplinary procedure that would make involvement in & a racial episode cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Protest | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...money. "That was the worst problem I had," admits Chicagoan Abra Prentice Wilkin, great- granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. "I didn't earn it." The knowledge can taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes, she was so upset she never wore them. And nagging twinges persist. "I still rationalize buying a $3,000 set of sheets," she says. "Well, shoot, why not? You spend a third of your life in bed, and they last." The sheer social inequity of their gilded circumstances gnaws away at some. Declares Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Woes of Being Wealthy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Janice Sweetser broke the Harvard record with a 4:54.26 in the 500-yd. freestyle trials, putting her in the coveted lane four for the finals. Penn State's Denise Sonntag was not deterred by Sweetser's position or her own meager lane one alottment, and scored a big upset with a 4:53.68, more than two seconds ahead of Sweetser...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Aquawomen Stake Lead On First Day of Easterns | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

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