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Her movies have ranged from the eminent to the eminently forgettable, her singular silhouette has budded, bloomed, overripened, then been gloriously pruned. In the past few years, after a much publicized battle with drugs and overweight, Elizabeth Taylor has re-emerged in the public eye to champion humanitarian causes, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Genet spent most of his 20s in jail on charges of theft, prostitution and related crimes. There, on strips of brown wrapping paper, he composed a long poem about a homosexual murderer, then a novel about a male prostitute, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mandarin and the Thief Simone de Beauvoir: 1908-1986; Jean Genet: 1910-1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Seymour started by killing his undergraduate business studies. "That was the riskiest step," concedes Provost Daniel DeNicola, "since one-third of the students were majoring in business." Communications studies suffered the same fate. Concurrently, Rollins revived its classics programs--Latin, Greek, languages, literature--and built a well-stocked new library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

The mystery is a bit formulaic: after several people display powerful motives to kill him, an eminent attorney collapses of an apparent heart attack. A canny elder discovers that the death was murder by poison, then proves that the killing is linked to a point of law. The villain is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amateurs | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Including that first one, Gooden won 17 games and the Rookie of the Year award. He also lost Youmans again, shipped with a small gang of minor and major leaguers to Montreal, but at least he was compensated this time with the eminent backstop Gary Carter. "We're all just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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