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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after a bus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Occupational Hazard | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...northeast Washington neighborhood last week, residents protested a plan by Mother Teresa and the Roman Catholic archdiocese to open a hospice in the area for AIDS patients. In Chicago, a charter-bus driver ejected 35 healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS: Prejudice and Progress | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psycho-Alchemy | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Guitar Town has some of the frantic strength of a last good shot, which it was. Earle is 31,"the tour bus is home," and making it in country music needs a young man's grit after all. But MCA has given him a seven-album contract, and some material for the new record is getting an airing in concert. Those new songs nail a listener right to the spot. Steve Earle is already fulfilling his promise even before he has stopped being promising. No time to waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Although it seems horrible enough, I guess there is a positive aspect to the torture which I go through each summer. After about a week of bolt-grinding, I begin to miss the shuttle bus. After a month of ditch digging, I could sit through an English 10 lecture without screaming, and finally, by the beginning of September I love Harvard, and can't wait to be back. Even the Lampoon reads well after a summer with Baby...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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