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A.A. was conceived in Akron, when Bill Wilson, a stockbroker suffering from an uncontrollable drinking problem, got in touch with Surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith, a total stranger and also an alcoholic. Wilson's desperate idea: apply the buddy system to the problem of quitting. Since then A.A. has grown steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fifty Years, a Day At a Time | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Composed of admissions and financial aid officers from colleges around the country, COFHE decided that "it would be nice for all colleges to more their notification date as close to April I as possible to allow students a longer time to explore their options," said Willis J. Stepson, Jr., dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions To Mail Letter 5 Days Early | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

Close your eyes and you can picture that wisecrack coming from Carole Lombard or Rosalind Russell in a '30s screwball comedy. Moonlighting re-creates the madcap mood of those films with the help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Spring Sparring Partners | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Director Woody Allen, Farrow and Jeff Daniels, who plays Tom, handle this moment as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And, indeed, the easy manner of the movie throughout its brief, densely packed running time of 82 minutes is what makes its impossibilities seem credible. Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now Playing At the Jewel the Purple Rose of Cairo | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

There is the sweet air of an authentic memoir about The Flamingo Kid, which recollects an adolescent experience in gentle but nonsoporific tranquillity. The time is 1963, and Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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