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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown as much as I have. But I hope you love the place a lot faster than I did. It's a big adjustment for everyone, so don't be discouraged if you're a bit sad those first few months. Most people are, even those who seem so content from the start...

Author: By Joel A. Getz, | Title: Should I stay or Should I Go? | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

THEY SAY A BOOK can't be judged by its cover, but they never mentioned anything about record album covers. Infact, aside from playing a key role in selling the vinyl, albumn covers have the double duty of tipping off the tone of the record's content...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Wet Dishes | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...Tina Weymouth can expect a lot of her voice in background vocals. The album even has a front cover that is a grafftti-filled painting by the Rev. Howard Finster. Borrowed from Tom Tom Club art, the front cover does not give as many hints to the record's content as the back cover. But it can make some good reading while you're mellowing out to Little Creatures, and it just might slow up the realization that these tunes probably are not dry enough to wipe wet dishes...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Wet Dishes | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...each other after a group of Amal militiamen tried to stop a car loaded with Druze. Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt agreed to a cease-fire but later, when asked how long it would last, replied, "Only God and Syria know." Given all these circumstances, Syrian President Hafez Assad was content to let the rival factions in Lebanon fight on for a while before he risks his own troops to try to restore order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Aboard Flight 847 | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

While most fans are content to watch Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine (Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca) walk off into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flick Lit Suspects | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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