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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place in the haunted mind of its title character. His goal when creating Salesman, he says, was to "cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers, and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding another, display past and present concurrently, with neither one ever coming to a stop . . . How fantastic a play would be that did not still the mind's simultaneity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Life of Fade-Outs and Fade-Ins TIMEBENDS | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...member ruling Politburo. He thus became the first high-ranking Kremlin official appointed by Gorbachev to tumble from grace, a milestone that at first seemed to point to a setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread of the second and third pages, the story left no doubt that Gorbachev not only acquiesced in the political assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union I Am Very Guilty | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...exhibit of radiator-lamps created by local artist Peter Houk is currently on display in the basement lounge. Mark R. Prascak '89, another Adams House resident, plans to stage "The Mesozoic Maids", his Flinstonian adaption of Jean Genet's play "The Maids" in December...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Adams to Screen Avant-Garde Films | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts its dank characters on display rather than cadging sympathy for them. It is the Blue Velvet of date-night spook shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...year-old pioneer of the New Journalism, emphasizing that "today it is impossible to be too ostentatious." In Manhattan, where Wolfe and his wife, daughter and son occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined up in front of what he calls "this week's restaurant of the century." Inside these land yachts, the young and newly rich slurp drinks while waiting for their names to be announced for the next available table. The highest status will be conferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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