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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same mistake that liberals have made for years: believing that Reagan does not really mean what he says. He came into office preaching that previous arms negotiations were "fatally flawed" because they sought to limit rather than reduce nuclear weapons. Even as he pursued his military buildup, he clung to the notion that its purpose was to force the Soviets to negotiate "real reductions." Perhaps he believed it from the outset, or perhaps (as is often the case with Reagan's verities) he said it so much that he convinced himself. Either way, he has now discombobulated everyone, from former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Meet Again: Why all the world loves a summit | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...close-valued color and her pasty, elegantly manipulated pigment that she was already an artist of considerable sophistication. What was not clear was where she could take this quasi-heraldic imagery if she was going to hold on to her roots in pictorial minimalism. One soon found out. Rothenberg clung to the human figure, presenting it as a collection of parts, signs and & fragments: an open mouth, a lump of head, or a set of sequential images of a reaching arm that seemed to stutter across the canvas in a condition of terminal insecurity. The work looked muffled, ineloquent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spectral Light, Anxious Dancers | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...commuter plane from Portland, Me., without any passengers -- and seemingly without the rear door securely fastened. When Dempsey went back to close it, the plane ran into turbulence, and he was tossed against the door. Hinged at the bottom, it swung down, and Dempsey fell forward with it. He clung to the door, head down, with only his legs inside the aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Track: Delta is blamed for a close call | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

During the last years of World War II, most buildings in central Berlin were destroyed. Postwar planners, in a kind of survivors' frenzy, pulled down much of what remained intact, finishing with bulldozers and wrecking balls what the bombs had begun. They clung to their modernist faith, bedazzled by the idea of starting anew. The war had given their ahistorical impulse -- Erase the past! -- maniacal urgency. The denuded cityscape was regarded in the '40s and '50s as the war's silver lining, a great opportunity. New buildings would be high-rise, set far apart and back from the streets. Density...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Rebuilding Berlin - Yet Again | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

...calendar, as in so many aspects of day-to-day life, Harvard has clung to what administrators call a traditional path, with a fall semester starting late and exams after Christmas break, and a spring exam schedule that this year threatens to run into June...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Harvard's Exam Schedule: Why We're Still Here | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

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