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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McGuanes moved out of Paradise Valley to their 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...

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

...final score--Harvard 52, Division III Brandeis 46--and he'll smile, lean back and think, "It's the same old Harvard team after all. The same one that lost its home opener last season to New Hampshire by 19. This time around, they couldn't even handle a school from that 'powerful' league, the UAA [University Athletic Association...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: And Now a Word From New Jersey | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Can David Lean's 1962 epic possibly be adapted for the tube? Yes! The videotape (RCA/Columbia) looks smashing, and the laser disc (Criterion), with its superior sound and visual resolution, even better. Both offer the fully restored film that was successfully rereleased in February, and both preserve its wide-screen format...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

HECTOR BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (Angel/EMI). Lean, brisk and idiomatic: Roger Norrington leads the London Classical Players in Berlioz's Manichaean, virtuoso ear grabber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Hollywood wants to paint an anecdote on a $40 million canvas. The Brits, in their strapped-for-quid, post-David Lean days, toil to see how many angels can dance on the head of a penny. For perhaps a tenth of Black Rain's budget, Queen of Hearts lays out a beguiling panorama of romance and revenge, coming of age and coming to terms. Oh, and the niftiest talking pig since Porky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pigstruck | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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