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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every reporter's dream to be on the spot for a major news story. TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton has experienced the attendant rush of adrenaline more than once during the three years she has spent covering the Philippines. Perhaps her most unforgettable -- and terrifying -- moment came at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983. After flying with Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino on China Airlines Flight 811 from Taipei, Burton watched as Aquino was escorted from the plane by Filipino soldiers. Moments later, while her tape recorder whirred, she heard gunfire as he was cut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 3, 1986 | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

More than two years later, Burton was interviewing President Ferdinand Marcos at Manila's Malacanang Palace when an aide burst in and showed the President a wire service dispatch announcing Cory Aquino's candidacy in the national presidential elections. Marcos glanced at it and predicted, accurately, that Aquino and Salvador Laurel would form a unified ticket to challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 3, 1986 | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Manila-based Reporter Nelly Sindayen assisted Burton in reporting this week's cover stories on the turbulent presidential election campaign. Correspondents William Stewart and Barry Hillenbrand flew to the Philippines for the final days of the campaign. For Stewart, TIME's Washington-based diplomatic correspondent, it was his first trip to the Philippines since he visited the islands after reporting on the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 3, 1986 | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen Anne and Empire parodies (1984). Sometimes the jokes are perverse, and the subject is the material itself. Scott Burton has carved chairs from solid granite (1984) and Gehry's fish-shaped lamp (1983) is made of Formica chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne awaiting a space-age dictator, Dune-style. Bruce Tomb's wood-and-granite propane cookstove (1983-84) seems at once oddly futuristic and jerry-built--in other words, postnuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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