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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boy vs. the Dirty Digger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...scene had been replayed downriver as far as Steubenville, Ohio, where an ice jam slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling, W. Va., was bracing for the onslaught, and contamination was feared along the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal law by footing the entire cleanup bill: "I expect it will be a multimillion-dollar problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Nightmare on The Monongahela | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...scoot'n shoot is not dead. Just a little sick...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Scoot, Shoot or Sink | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...have been getting outshot, outscored and outplayed," Taylor said. "I think the kids have been good and have worked hard. Sometimes, though, their frustrations are channeled into negative dead ends...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Snapping The Skid | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...performance of his Fourth Symphony, who rioted at the debut of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring were no more sophisticated than today's listeners. It is simply that no one told them they were listening to classical music. What they experienced was not the passive appreciation of a dead art but love and wonder at its terrible, living beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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