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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired businessman and avid golfer. Thatcher's own favorite recreation appears to be reading briefing papers. She has groomed no obvious successor among the Tories, and remarked early in the campaign that she might "go on and on," perhaps seeking a fourth term. "What would she do if she weren't Prime Minister?" asks Tory Chairman Tebbit. "One doesn't see her retiring to gardening or making marmalade." One does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain All Revved Up | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Here's a picture with no space wars, no music videos, no cute beasties, no bikinis. It is a period film in the wrong period. Kids want to go back to the '50s, not to Chicago during Prohibition. They weren't even born when this movie was a TV series. The producer, Art Linson, makes little pictures, and Brian De Palma directs naughty ones that rarely go gold. David Mamet writes Pulitzer-prizewinning plays, not boffo movies. O.K., so who's in the cast? Robert De Niro: his last hit was 1978's The Deer Hunter. Sean Connery: splendid actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untouchables: Shooting Up the Box Office | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...reason we couldn't get our act together is because we weren't concurrently awake for more than two hours out of any 24. Larry sleeps during the day. I sleep at night. I'd get up in the morning and Larry's light would still be on. He'd be totally asleep, with all his clothes on. I'd come back from class in the afternoon and the room would be dark and Larry would still be asleep. Except this time his books would be on the floor...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: An Animated Lunch With Larry | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Says Lukas: "We weren't that superficial. We weren't that dumb. We weren't that apolitical...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Looking Back 35 Years: The 'Possum Caused a Riot | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...fellow mourners, I will leave it to the historians to debate exactly what "symbolic" means. What is not debatable is that a political movement that can only generate "symbolic" protests that weren't meant to succeed is a dead movement...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Divestment Movement: R.I.P. | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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