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...senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops to trumpets, in the company of Mark Branson, a high school music teacher, Mark Fessenden, a florist, and Glen Harcus, a racing-car manufacturer. On bass is Dick Burchell, a salesman, and on piano is Dan Stefanko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: From Molars to Moonglow | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Bethesda, Maryland, Editorial Chairman. Steven L. Lichtman '88 of Leverett House and Oceanside, New York, Deputy Editorial Chairman. Gary D. Rowe '88 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, California, Associate Editorial Chairman. Abigail M. McGanney '87-'88 of Mather House and New York, New York, Arts Editor. Jeffrey J. Wise '88 of Adams House and Tokyo, Japan, Assistant Editorial Chairman...

Author: By Joseph F K, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...about returning. Last week Ballerina Natalia Makarova got a similar offer from Grigorovich. The Soviets have also approached Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Novelist Vasily Aksyonov and Theater Director Yuri Lyubimov. Grigorovich noted that there is a new "atmosphere of openness" in the Soviet Union. Said he: "We now have a wise leader who is loved by the whole country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Siren Songs from Moscow | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), has seen to the slaughtering of villagers before the entire place is torched. During a third battle, Barnes tracks down a woods-wise sergeant, Elias (Willem Dafoe), who had interrupted Barnes' massacre, shoots him and leaves him for dead. On the final patrol Chris flips into heroism or psychosis, wipes out a nest of North Vietnamese and confronts the demon he has almost become. End with a murder -- the last of too bloody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...CENTRAL CHARACTER who ties several of these vignettes together is an aspiring actress named Sally White, played with characteristic grace and believability by--surprise, surprise--Mia Farrow. Even if Allen hadn't been shacking up with her, he would have been wise to cast her. Since he no longer sleeps with Diane Keaton, though, he has no excuse for giving her an entire scene in which she does nothing but sing...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Woody Allen's New Deal | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

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