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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The exodus of thousands of well-trained plumbers, bus drivers and doctors has only added to the misery, shutting down entire assembly lines, paralyzing health care, even forcing policemen to drive public buses. Says Sylko Roehle, 17, a machinist: "We saw what Poland and Hungary were doing; we heard Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leipzig: Hotbed of Protest | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

A Few Good Men is at least as good a play as The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which it resembles. The production is adroit, and its subject -- the degree to which the military is properly subordinate to civilian values -- has never ceased to be topical. But it suffers from bad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marine Life | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Still, there is plenty of wisecracking humor and suspense in this tale of two hapless Marines (ably played by Victor Love and Michael Dolan) who accidentally kill a squad mate while disciplining him, then find that the officers who ordered the discipline are lying to protect their own careers. Sorkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marine Life | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

There, however, useful invention ends. The narrative Murphy develops out of this situation is less a homage to a vanished genre than a knock-off of two more recent successes -- The Sting and Prizzi's Honor -- that were funny, but in antithetical, unblendable ways. The movie veers uneasily from not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murphy's One-Man Band | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

A. First, the countries of Latin America must make concerted efforts among / themselves, then coordinate with other developing countries so as to enhance our bargaining power. There is a need for a new North-South summit that would deal with some issues involving the security of the whole world. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: On Drugs, Debt and Poverty: Venezuela's CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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