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...matter how hard I try, I can't resist sticking my finger back in the proverbial electrical socket. This year was no exception. The Indiana-Syracuse game ended about two and a half hours too early, and the lack of any suitable Hogan's Heroes reruns meant certain doom. My dial was irresistibly drawn over...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...that moment, in the distant patch -- actually a small galaxy now known as the Large Magellanic Cloud -- a supergiant star glowed fiercely, showing no outward signs of its impending doom. Suddenly, in a cataclysmic blast, it exploded, brightening until it outshone a hundred million stars the size of the sun. In every direction the intense light, traveling at 186,282 miles per second, radiated out into the universe, some of it heading toward a minor planet orbiting an average star in the neighboring and much larger Milky Way galaxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Complacency probably would not doom the Crimson tonight. Collapse, however, might...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Icemen Bowl a Strike | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

American representative Simons said thatnuclear arms negotiations must be linked tobroader tensions stemming from Soviet involvementin "third countries" and human rights violations.The Soviet officials, however, claimed thatnuclear arms negotiations would be conductedbetter an a matter of highest priority and thatother issues should not doom efforts to reducenuclear arsenals...

Author: By Jacob Hill, | Title: Russians Face Yanks In Law School Debate | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

With Rourke shambling smartly toward his doom, Bonet radiating elfin sensuality, and De Niro looking natty with his fancy jewelry and sulfurous smile, Angel Heart holds the mind and eye throughout. To be sure, even the most attentive viewer may still have one small question at the end: Whodunit? (Frankly, we think it was a satanic frame-up.) It is a question that could provoke more profitable debate than the needless fury raised by the rating board's attempted Heart transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lucifer In Disguise with Diamonds ANGEL HEART | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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