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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bet she'd relish being sandwiched...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A French Quiche | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...important, though, the Russians are not likely to blackmail Europe with natural gas. The Soviet Union simply stands to gain as much-from the deal as Europe does. The Russian need of hard currency for grain and technology purchases is well known; if anything, mutual dependence is our best bet to avoid a nuclear disaster. The trans-European pipeline serves that...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: A Pipeline to Prosperity | 2/12/1982 | See Source »

...officials. It is said that one of the officials, a pioneering geologist named Major John W. Powell, donated his gray matter in order to settle a wager with a colleague about whose brain was larger. Curators are not sure what happened to the colleague's brain or the bet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning the Nation's Attic | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Psycho reports that she's starting a group of her own in Somerville. The outfit will be called Romper Room and if it ever gets off the ground, you can bet Psycho will cover a few of Burma's big hits...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Mission Impossible | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series of paintings on the scale and quality of the Ocean Parks eventually come out of them? One would be rash to bet against it. -By Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Geometry Bathed in Light | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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