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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout, Stone kept winding Cruise tighter. "I put a lot of pressure on Tom," he says, "maybe too much. I wanted him to read more, visit more hospitals. I wanted him to spend time in that chair, to really feel it. He went to boot camp twice, and I didn't want his foxhole dug by his cousin. At one point I talked him into injecting himself with a solution that would have totally paralyzed him for two days. Then the insurance company -- the killer of all experience -- said no because there was a slight chance that Tom would have...

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

...current spread near McLeod (pop. 5). In the cozy living room of his log-cabin house, McGuane throws another chunk of cottonwood on the fire as Laurie whips up a pot of hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher and Marlboro Man of letters. "I guess I'm kind of like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOM MCGUANE: He's Left No Stone Unturned | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Members of the Cambridge Tenants Union say they are also dissatisfied with Rosenberg's write up. Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the union, says his group wanted the city to initiate a program of outreach to specific landlords with low rents, rather than raise rents across the board...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Suggests Minimum Rents | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

Mihnea Berindei, vice chair of the Paris-based Romanian League for Human Rights, said he had reports of police firing on the demonstrators in Timisoara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Reported Killed in Romanian Unrest | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...John Glenn (D-Ohio), committee chair, said in releasing the report that it "shows that the U.S. nuclear weapons program was exposing large numbers of workers to potentially dangerous health risks but did nothing to warn them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Failed to Reveal Radiation Hazards | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

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