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In a fast-action sequence worthy of Indiana Jones, Para mount and 20th Century-Fox last week played switcheroo with top executives. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller, 42, the man responsible for the studio's long string of recent successes (Indi ana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Musical Chairs in Hollywood | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Halfway through dinner he says, 'Are we going to get between the sheets or not?' Cute, huh? Lucky thing I brought my own car." She takes out a tube of Super Glue and, in a surrealistic gesture worthy of Buftuel, reattaches a thumbnail that is one and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Rumania's show of independence from Moscow was nothing new. While maintaining tight control over internal critics, President Nicolae Ceauşescu has a history of quietly differing with Moscow on foreign policy issues. He has maintained cordial ties with Peking, kept an embassy in Israel after Moscow broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Rise of an East Bloc Maverick | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Ferraro even handled a brush with Southern chauvinism with an aplomb worthy of Scarlett O'Hara. As the candidates dryly discussed farm issues near a soybean field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's That in the Gray Suit? | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Aubrey fares worst. His guest reminds him of his own years in England, of a Western standard of civilization wholly lacking in Cuyama: "We go abroad and we see how other people live. We study at their universities, we read their books, we admire their paintings and their fine buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Native Grounds | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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