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...time. Must be you're still in the jungle, if not exactly on safari. Africa for Graceland, Brazil now. All those strange, haunting sprung sounds, gliding guitars and drums echoing like distant dreams. Is this the way your dreams sound? Percussive and persistent? The kind that linger into the daylight, aren't they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAUL SIMON: Songs of A Thinking Man | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...remarkable that someone could have perpetrated this heinous crime in full daylight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

...From morning until 5 or 6 at night, we stayed in the apartment. After that, we could leave the apartment, and we could see the sky from other windows, but we could never go outside. In the winter, because it was dark by 5 p.m., we never saw daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's FANG LIZHI: The Science Of Human Rights | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

Arizona -- or "Seizure World," as Republican Senator John McCain once called its retirement communities -- is the state that said no to daylight saving time, turned its back on the Martin Luther King holiday and was the last to come around on Medicaid and the interstate highway system. It is home to two-fifths of the Keating Five (Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain), to Barry Goldwater (considered left of center by many natives), and to the nation's first impeached Governor in 59 years, Evan Mecham. It is not a place for the politically faint of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Back - in Arizona | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...every live performance, as well as the singers' inalienable right to get it wrong. Country-and-western star Johnny Paycheck, crooning before Atlanta Falcons fans, faked his way through several lines: "Oh, say can you see, it's cloudy at night/ What so loudly we sang as the daylight's last cleaning." An immigrant Hungarian opera singer performing at a benefit showed Yankee ingenuity when he drew on the cliches of his adopted land, belting out, "Bombs bursting in air, George Washington was there." A former Miss Bloomington, Minn., blew her chance to break into the big time when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Say, Can You Sing It? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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