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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a large island, when he discovered what he was looking at was a walrus." In the author's luminous notes, the Eskimos, the animals and the landscape are components in a vast, unfinished epic. "The continuous work of the imagination," Lopez concludes, is "to bring what is actual together with what is dreamed." This merger is a crystalline triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Mar. 10, 1986 | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...deals were dramatic evidence of Zenith's growing reputation as a computer maker. Together with earlier contracts signed since 1983 with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the new sales bring the value of Zenith's total computer business with the Government to $500 million. Says Andrew Czernek, marketing manager for Zenith's computer subsidiary: "Someday, we hope to be known as widely for our computers as for our TVs. At the Pentagon, that's already happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Changing Channels At Zenith | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...praetorian guards would turn against him. He thought money could buy loyalty. He underestimated the basic decency of Filipinos." The group tested palace security by smuggling cars filled with empty boxes into the palace grounds. Since nobody bothered to stop them, they realized they would be able to bring in explosives if they should choose to do so. Two weeks ago the reformers learned that they were in imminent danger. As the first step in a byzantine crackdown, Marcos arrested a group of soldiers. Though these troops were not members of the reform movement, the reformers theorized that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Anatomy of a Revolution | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...ease with which a network producer can press a button and bring in a distant image got ABC into trouble with the White House on Wednesday night following President Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Everywhere But in Manila | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the Oscar for the most sensational in film goes to Quincy's society for its 1980 season. During the showing of Animal House there, several students threw beer cans at the screen and damaged it. To raise money for repairs, the society decided to bring back an old tradition of showing the X-rated film Deep Throat during exam period...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: House Film Societies: Mini Moguls of Movie Industry | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

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