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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also last year, students at North and Cabot Houses--Currier's cinder blocks have not yet had time to decay--asked to be included in the decision-making process. More specifically, they asked to be included on a University Hall committee chaired by Fox which was making recommendations to the deans...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: A Long and Winding Road | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...novels during the past few decades, the plot derives from the betrayal of Britain by Master Spy Kim Philby and his fellow moles for the Soviets. What distinguishes Forbes' book is his poignant linking of those defections to what he sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live in England. Every small town he drove through had the same faceless High Street: betting shops, uninviting pubs, takeaway Chinese restaurants, the pavements scarred with refuse spilling from plastic bags, as if the only growth industries left were those propagating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amateurs | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Omar changes motivations (Candide to Sammy Glick), in an eyewink. Stephen Frears' direction can be lyrical and clumsy by turns; it can soar or trip over its headlong ambitiousness. The splendid cast is urged toward caricature, then plays through it, with Seth magnificent as a mandarin socialist in decay. He is the eloquent conscience of a people stranded in a land whose imperial sun has set. Alas, they are too busy making it, on the empire's old terms, to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rue Britannia My Beautiful Laundrette | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Maeglin said that he had watched the steady decay of the shower ceiling and that the ceiling of Eliot Hall's other second-floor bathroom may well be next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaster and Water Don't Mix | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

Despite his frequent trans-global excursions Dewitt spends a lot of time hangin' out in New York City observing urban decay and blight at its finest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can't Fool Mother Nature | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

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