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Movie screens will be as full of rock as the home tube. One of Hollywood's hottest movies for summer '84 is Walter Hill's Streets of Fire, with a title rerouted from Bruce Springsteen, a score featuring songs by the Blasters and Tom Petty, and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

While the presidential candidates talk of their plans, the real leadership is coming from the state level: from Governors, from local superintendents, from business people. In a spirit of enlightened self-interest, state officials equate better schools with healthier economies. Some 45 states have put together task forces to consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

WHAT MAKES such dryness a sign of hope is not just the implication that promoting a woman to a new position is commonplace--though in the city of Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, the matter-seems far less debatable than elsewhere. Rather, it neatly avoids the undertones that unavoidably creep...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Her Honor, The Lord Mayor | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

A visitor ambles to the ice cream pavilion in the town's square. Near by a sizable bookstore offers the works of Reinhold Niebuhr in paper and hardback, but no Playboys. A red-brick walkway shaded by great maples leads to the Hall of Philosophy, a determinedly Greek structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Culture's Front Porch | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

Few students, especially freshmen, escape experiencing the drastic reduction of alternatives that comes after 3 a.m. For the benighted Yardling there are three basic choices: finish the Expos paper (unthinkable), go to sleep (dire in consequence), or stroll down to the Square and The Store which (almost) never shuts, to...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

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