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He does it with a peculiar combination of ambisexual eroticism and self-mythologizing. Until Purple Rain, Prince played at being a prisoner of sex who craved a life sentence. Some of his song titles sounded like cuts on a Pigmeat Markham party record (Head, Soft and Wet). If there was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Highness of Haze | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Even Cuomo, who has become a party guru with his gospel of gee-whiz goodness, has no record to run on. His year and a half in Albany has been a litany of failure, and his obsession with the 21-year-old minimum drinking age as the family issue is...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Embarrassment | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

His next obsession is a nonmeat burger.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's Trendy, Tasty and Tofutti | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

The obsession with Reagan goes well beyond his words. Soviet officials view the President's commitment to a $1.6 trillion military buildup as evidence that the U.S. is determined to achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union. (When asked at his press conference last week whether the Republican Party platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Hard Line | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Irwin Shaw, 71, popular, prolific American writer whose lean, straightforward prose style and masterly sense of storytelling won wide audiences for such novels as The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), but who will be remembered critically for his short stories of the 1930s and '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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