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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panic and fear set in. I used those emotions to get back to the person I was before all the glamour and notoriety. Rocky is a once-in-a-lifetime coming together of self and character." But now that they are together, Stallone realizes he may never leave his alter ego entirely behind. "I'm in a shell that will never incubate to the point of hatching, and I have finally accepted that fact," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...observations are dispiriting. The underlying theme coursing through these informative volumes is that there is a Chinese character no Marxist decree can alter. The rules of the Confucian code, the ancient tradition of decorum known as the li, remain. After 30 years, the People's Republic of China is still more Chinese than Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Red Alert | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...thousands of people would be displaced from their homes. Millions of acres of northern land would be flooded, including great tracts of game forest. Towns and villages would disappear, some of them with onion-domed churches dating back to the Middle Ages. No less disturbing, the diversion could drastically alter climate not only in the Soviet Union but throughout the Northern Hemisphere, even as far off as the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Making Rivers Run Backward | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Turk's personal address. She did not directly refuse Turk's request for a meeting but stated that HRE responds only to "specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building common areas affecting them." She said in a subsequent interview that HRE would not alter its stance and recognize the union in the future...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Harvard: Enlightened Or Despotic Giant? | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through the states of his mind; Susan and Fenwick, his alter egos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conceits | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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