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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the cast are uniformly good, if occasionally stricken with a slight first-weekend woodenness which should disappear. Steve Peterson, measuring in at somewhere over six feet, uses his own position somewhat nearer to heaven than most to his advantage as the omniscient and condescending Mr. Jordan, but it's hard not to miss James Mason in the role. Patrick O'Kelley provides a deliciously loathsome Tony Abbott, the sleazy lover who tries to drown his millionaire boss and make off with his wife...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Heaven Sent | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...suddenly there was more to it. Jason McDevitt after all did not simply disappear once I moved away; he took a similar path as I had. And as if that Saturday night were not proof enough that childhood lingers, the next year, the night after The Game in Cambridge, there was Jason in a parking lot near Mather House...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Michigan, Coach Bo and The Game | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

Scientific autobiographies are not about to disappear. One hopes that future partakers of the genre will not look to Glashow for inspiration...

Author: By Jesper B. Sorensen, | Title: A Particle Life: Does It Matter? | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...matter who the next President is, the homeless crisis is likely to get worse. An additional 200,000 units of low-income housing could disappear over the next five years as loans expire from a tax-break program of the 1960s and '70s. The Federal Government had encouraged private developers to build low-income housing by offering to subsidize 40-year mortgages on the buildings. Now many owners are taking advantage of an option to pay off the mortgages after 20 years, freeing them to sell or rent the apartments at the prevailing market price. The result could be hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homeless: Brick by Brick | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Before reaching Del Rio, the road wanders through Roma, a steamboat terminus in the 19th century. The sheriff is out to lunch, but his office, on a bluff overlooking the river, is unlocked and unminded. Two hundred yards upriver a trio of illegal immigrants from Mexico wade across and disappear, just three more of the estimated 1 million to 2 million people who slip across the border each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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