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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such evils, for example, as the assumption that nations are separate unto themselves. Today all countries are interconnected despite their territorial claims, he argues, and "saying that the Japanese have a pollution problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds of futurists share that insight. Some of them, when pressed hard enough, may even present a solution or two. That is the Asimov difference: without prompting, he offers remedies by the ream. The man who predicted assembly-line robotics in 1939, coined the term psychohistory -- "the prediction of future trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Protean Penman | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...SHOW BOAT (EMI). The classic Mississippi musical jes' keeps rollin' along, here with such stern-wheeling operatic voices as Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. The first recording that is completely faithful to the original Kern-Hammerstein score reveals a raw, powerful, even angry work. And you thought it was "only make-believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 21, 1988 | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River raw. Now, as the last charcoal cleansing filters are installed inside this state-of-the-art box, an apparition has appeared on the outside, in full view of thousands of neighbors, riverside commuters and pleasure-boat tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Coney Island On the Hudson | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

More committal was recently re-elected Rep. Fred Grandy '70 (D-lowa), perhaps best known for his portrayal of "Gopher," the bumbling assistant purser on the television series "The Love Boat...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Matchup? | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...SHOW BOAT (EMI). The classic Mississippi musical jes' keeps rollin' along, here with such stern-wheeling operatic voices as Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. The first recording that is completely faithful to the original Kern-Hammerstein score reveals a raw, powerful, even angry work. And you thought it was "only make-believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 14, 1988 | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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