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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who served in Viet Nam, according to the estimate, still suffer from post- traumatic-stress syndrome, a chronic form of what once was known as battle fatigue. The peculiarities of combat in Viet Nam made them especially vulnerable--never knowing who the enemy was, living in almost constant fear of attack in the bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...scale beyond the University, Jameson N. Marvin, director of choral activities at Harvard, said Bach's birthday is receiving more attention than Handel's because "the level of Bach's genius as a composer is so constant, and there are such pinnacle works in all categories, where as Handel only has them...

Author: By Maia E. Harris and Jennifer L. Mnookin, S | Title: Bach-analia | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

...worse than the mark of Cain, or even the mark of the Beast, is the stigma I carry. It gets me laughed at in class, thrown out of bars, and brings me constant shame. What...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...from-New Jersey, but I know the what-exit-do-you-live-on nonsense would be a constant irritation. Ditto to the I-spent-a-week-in-Cleveland-one-day remarks. And I suppose that some would he hurt to hear that suicide-in-Buffalo-is-redundant. Maybe I've learned the hard way. A little mutual respect would go a long...

Author: By Nicholes S. Wurf, | Title: Every Town Is Our Town | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...Seeking Susan, Arquette reveals herself as a master of comic body language--and there is eloquence in that delicately voluptuous body--but she still uses something like an internal Ouija board to find Roberta's pressure points. Says Susan Seidelman: "Rosanna has a rich emotional life she's in constant touch with. It meant for enormous temperamental ups and downs on the set. But then I'd look at the rushes and love what's on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beautiful Dreamer in a Minefield Desperately Seeking Susan | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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