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...part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Classic Muddle | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...woo Holly Farms' stockholders, Tyson offered a spicier bid of $1.15 billion last week, contingent on the cancellation of the ConAgra agreement. In response, the Holly Farms board of directors said that unless ConAgra comes up with a better offer before a special stockholders meeting in late February, it will recommend the Tyson offer to its shareholders. Then the poultry prince will really have something to crow about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Feathers In the Coop: Mike Tyson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps not, but his academy's results are beautiful indeed. Doss created it in 1986 to get inner-city girls into good colleges. After only one full season of academics and athletics, colleges are queuing up, scholarships in hand, to woo Upward Bound graduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upward Bound Making a Fast Break Out of the Ghetto | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Physicist and former Delaware lieutenantgovernor S.B. Woo addressed a different fault ofcontemporary politicians...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: New Spring IOP Fellows Discuss Political Action | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

...agreed to send a delegation to Panmunjom on Feb. 8 to discuss arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Young Hoon. Seoul had proposed such a meeting last year, hoping for an eventual summit between South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and North Korean President Kim Il Sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Talking About Talks | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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