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Some musicals-the good ones, that is-knock audiences off their feet with brassy numbers. Others touch their hearts with sentimental ballads. Pump Boys and Dinettes is different: it tickles the funny bone and makes everybody feel, just for the evening, like a good ole boy or a good ole girl. Country music, in other words, has come to Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Ole Time | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...that innovative designers use the South African hair sheep for their fashions instead of the cow, which is in plentiful supply. These stylish skins cost more than the rancher gets for his whole animal-$300 of beef, bone and leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 22, 1982 | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...less gut and she had not yet become a middle-aged Barbie doll from overexposure to The Price Is Right. To finance all of Marcy's dear dreams, Charlie agrees to look the other way when illegal immigrants are spirited across the border to serve as the wetback-bone of Texas agriculture. It remains for Maria (Elpidia Carrillo), a comely Mexican who has lost her baby to an adoption ring, to bring out the best in him. When asked why he goes to near fatal lengths to help her, Charlie grunts: "I guess I gotta feel good about some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grubby Hero | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...league's premier quarterbacks, and the 11-3 Bengals were beginning to think Super Bowl. But then Walsh left, Anderson's statistics fell and the team deteriorated. In 1978 the Bengals opened with eight straight losses, in 1979 with six. Anderson broke a bone in his throwing hand, one in a long series of injuries that cut his effectiveness for three seasons. Fans actually cheered when Anderson was carried off the field injured in 1980, and in the opening game of this season he was so terrible that Gregg benched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Ideal Quarterback | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...because it lets me collect my thoughts, and when I'm driving with Drew, it's a private time when the telephone doesn't ring." Drew grouses about the inconveniences-the right clothes are always in the wrong city, and leisure activities are pared to the bone. Says he: "There isn't as much time for the fun things, but with Marilyn in the legislature, our conversation is much broader. We don't have to discuss the garden, the dog and the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Marital Tales of Two Cities | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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