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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mode of westerns like The Wild Bunch, Lonesome Dove notes the passing of an era. "Durn people makin' towns everywhere," says McCrae. "It's our fault too. We chased out the Indians . . . hung all the good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Poetry On The Prairie | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Take a critical dual-match against an archrival, a bunch of supercooled squash courts, hordes of rude and hostile fans, mix it all together, and what...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetwomen Travel to Princeton to Cage the Tigers | 2/3/1989 | See Source »

...symbol can only do so much. Too often, it convinces those who cling to them more than those who must accept them. And if there will never be another 1950s night at a Harvard dining hall, students will no doubt attribute it to the complaints of a bunch of Black students. Not to a bunch of white people who offended them...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...subjects made up an extraordinarily eclectic curriculum, and the teachers may well have been the most high-powered bunch ever assembled on or off a campus. For example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of a Standby | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...range of proposals, would cost the typical Wyoming motorist $412 a year. New Yorkers would pay $282 more and Washington drivers an additional $198. Says Doug Todd, a Republican state senator in Arizona: "We ought to have a lynching party standing by, and if that Eastern bunch of spendthrifts gets it passed, hang a few of 'em from the nearest on ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fueling Up a Brawl: U.S. gas tax | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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