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A sign that the Soviets grudgingly realize the need for contacts with the U.S. appeared two weeks ago in their domestic press and on the TASS foreign wire. In a historical analogy that would be hard to decipher anywhere outside the Soviet Union, the state media sought to justify Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is the kind of romance novelist who cries over her own happy endings and then puts a sprig of parsley on her cat's dinner so he can join in celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Educating Joan | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Last April the large computer was replaced with a microprocessor, the size of a Sony Walkman, that he wears on his belt. Columpus, 52, who now works as a counselor to the deaf in San Diego, has regained 70% of his understanding of the spoken word, although in groups he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Success for the Bionic Ear | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

After learning to decipher, Stuart published his first paper, entitled "Some Thoughts on Certain Occurrences of the T565 Glyph Element at Palenque" when he was 14. Since then, he has published two other papers and presented several more at conferences of Pre-Columbian scholars and is expecting to finish his...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Harvard's Youngest MacArthur Fellow | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

The myth and the romanticism of unifying the male and female form appear to have preoccupied H.D. in ways that are not always clear. Says Biographer Barbara Guest: "She had an assortment of ideas and events that were repetitious; they were thoughts and images that might be embellished by her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Astronomer's Daughter | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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