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...sped-up clouds, erosion, and decay aren't able to disturb your natural equilibrium, though, the train scenes will. Fricke places his camera on the front of an engine and the film accelerates as the train wends though tunnels and around curves and across mountain passes. There's no question you're on a runaway train...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...midnight coup was not the first event to disturb Aquino's sleep last week. Two days earlier the President provoked a general strike by leftist and conservative trade unions, angry over a recently announced hike in gasoline prices, from $1.24 to $1.49 per gal. In a country where the average annual income is barely $600 a year, the increase was stunning. Though Aquino finally declared a partial rollback of the hike, thousands of Filipinos walked off their jobs and out of their classrooms in the largest show of protest since Aquino assumed the presidency. After the strike went into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines The Coup That Failed | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...total secrecy, with the windows of the Pennsylvania statehouse shut tight and sentries stationed at the doors. When one delegate carelessly dropped a copy of a convention document, Washington began scolding, "I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue: Jul. 6, 1987 | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...prime-time series. I left the taping at 4 o'clock this morning your time, chartered a plane and flew all morning to get here by 10. So I just want to tell you, if I fall asleep, don't worry, don't panic and don't disturb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, A Few Words from the Wise | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...agents but with, at best, an implicit understanding of what they were up to among officials at the highest level of government. If Reagan did not tell North in no uncertain terms to secret arms and supplies to the contras, he let it be known that such would not disturb him in the least. Nor has he indicated that he is disturbed by North's activities since they were revealed nearly 7 months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Agonistes | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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