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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does he have that separates him from the Brat Pack? He's not as lovely as Rob Lowe. He doesn't explode, on- or off-camera, as ripely as Sean Penn. "Tom is at a disadvantage," says Barry Levinson, his Rain Man director. "He's got a pretty face, so his abilities are underestimated. And he's not working a rebel image, which is associated with being a good actor." But he does have the image, in the films that made him famous, of an intense young man with a mission: the total workhorse, the ultimate party animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...extraordinary set they were. His Carpathian peasant nurse, Cassandra, part witch and part illiterate earth mother, was given to romping naked with the pack of family dogs -- "a Lady Godiva with a pitch-black mane," whose fierce nurturing exuberance was in utmost contrast to the coddling anxieties of a beautiful, irascible Viennese mother. Mama believed she had gone below < her station in the polyglot provinces of the Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Into Chaos | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Pack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Loaded With Depth | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...United Parcel Service gave out one semester's tuition to a lucky CCSU student at the end of the game. That kind of promotion is just what is needed to pack the fans into Briggs Cage--only UPS should agree to shelling just one month's tuition at Harvard...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Rullman Nabs Rookie Honors | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

Scaly, furry and feathered creatures speak for themselves in Turtle in July (Macmillan; $13.95). Marilyn Singer's liberated verses suggest bodily rhythms (Deer Mouse: "get enough to last/ get enough to store/ get more"; Beavers: "You guard/ I pack/ I dig/ You stack"; Dragonfly: "Look/ skim/ there/ snap/ eat/ Repeat"). Meanwhile, Jerry Pinkney's watercolors furnish the shades and tints of four seasons and 15 highly articulate animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Cats, Myths and Pizza | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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