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...audience; at midnight she returned in a diaper as Baby 1973. She has emerged from a giant mollusk in a Polynesian bikini; walked on in a cunning knee-length frankfurter costume, mustard streaked down her front; raced across the proscenium in a mermaid's spangled fin and a motorized wheelchair; wowed crowds with her renowned mammary-balloon ballet. So what can she do for a 1987 encore? Strut into her hit movie, Outrageous Fortune, abuse a defenseless pay phone and insist, "Gimme back my bleepin' quarta!" Hollywood may be far from Broadway, but for Bette Midler it's just another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments. As a nurse guided his wheelchair out of a hospital elevator, only the presence of an escort with an official- looking radio suggested that this was a special patient: William Casey, until last week the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey's Well-Groomed Successor | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...School has just finished installing a temporary wheelchair ramp at Rockefeller Hall. Acting Financial and Personnel Officer Jane Hill said the ramp will meet building requirements until a permanent ramp is built after the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Div School to Aid Handicapped | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...very surprising that this had not even begun to be addressed before we got to school," said Carolyn Craig, a first-year divinity student who is confined to a wheelchair. "After a whole semester of addressing the issue continually, these past three weeks are the first time that we have seen anything happen." Added Craig, "I find these changes to be an effort, but it is only a start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Div School to Aid Handicapped | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...submachine guns and hand grenades, in October 1985 seized the Mediterranean cruise liner with more than 400 passengers and crew aboard. The hijackers were persuaded to leave the ship voluntarily during negotiations involving the Egyptian government and Palestinian leaders. U.S. Navy pilots captured them after their surrender. One passenger, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of Manhattan, was murdered in the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Talk First Or Shoot First? | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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