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...suburban malls-the same kind of desperate and characterless rearrangement happening all over the country-and still suburbanites clung to the perception of a ubiquitous downtown scene as one in which a man with a wallet is being chased by a man with a brick. Landmark buildings began to disappear, as did, the other day, an old newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: Death of an Afternoon | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...people of Tripoli did not need to muse about war games last week. The real thing, with its blood and terror, was ripping up yet another patch of Lebanon. As the powers squared off and the battle lines blurred, the entire country sometimes seemed fated to disappear in the flames of Middle East passion. French Author Albert Camus once observed that one is always too generous with the blood of others. Lately, the world has been too generous with the blood of the people in Lebanon. -By James Kelly. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Tripoli

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Showdown in Tripoli | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Without some congressional action, a big chunk of the cross-subsidy system is going to disappear, putting fierce upward pressure on bills for local phone services. Regional phone companies stand to lose about $3.3 billion in revenues that they received from AT&T's long-distance tolls when they were still under Ma Bell's roof. Currently, about 37? from each dollar in revenues from long-distance charges is plowed back into the local companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

CHOOSING TO PRESENT a play as good as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler--as the Quincy House Drama Society must have realized--considerably lightens the director's workload. Still, it doesn't make it disappear. The lackluster production in the Quincy House JCR this weekend shows the effects of this gap in reasoning. Uninspired line-reading and pacing, added to a lack of attention to both the grand shape of the plot and the details of the illusion, can't entirely quench the snap and sparkle of Ibsen's dialogue or the power of the story he tells, but they...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

Vellucci declined to comment on which of the candidates had advertised in the Express, but added. "It's is hard to raise money to pay for that advertising, and then to have it disappear from under your nose is what we call a low blow in politics, and it has to be illegal...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Councilors Question Race On Night Before Elections | 11/8/1983 | See Source »

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