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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHITE MISCHIEF. The African sun sets British blueblood sizzling in a steamy adaptation of James Fox's chronicle of decadence and murder in the Kenyan colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 2, 1988 | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...crisis soon arose. Harvard, for reasons that still befuddle many a blueblood, began to grow more lenient in its admission policy. Strange new men populated this formerly sacred ground--the strangest of whom, because of their bumpy body shapes and high pitched voices, became known pejoratively as "women...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...piece of writing. I'm quite an avid reader and don't recall a better-written article depicting my midwestern idea of the Harvard mind. You certainly hit "the nail on the head," and gave me a chance to laugh at myself and my own attitudes toward the eastern blueblood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Nick | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...blueblood's bordello is busted

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case of the Classy Madam | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...bandwagon rolls on with Trading Places, a loose-limbed comedy in which Lowlife Eddie and Blueblood Dan Aykroyd are forced to switch roles, and then get even with the two greedy geezers who did them dirt. It is the summer's lone comedy hit, grossing $30 million in its first three weeks of release. "Eddie is definitely a movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Good Little Bad Little Boy | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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