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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What cascades of academic glitter! What fine madness of the intelligentsia! What milling and wheedling! The wonderful persons circulated and chatted, drank and staggered, consumed "dip" (whatever that may be), and the like festive routine. Sing, Muse, of this catalogue of shits...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Hangover Time | 7/26/1983 | See Source »

...Portugal, Italy. I discovered many of those places while serving in the Merchant Marine during World War II. I was on North Atlantic and Mediterranean runs, among others, and there were always opportunities to get away into the countryside, where people welcomed me. Even in wartime, they ate and drank well." Demarest has been back to Europe almost every year in the past three decades. But he has also enjoyed traveling to and writing in TIME about more exotic places: the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1979, the Caribbean's pristine Lesser Antilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 25, 1983 | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...held by party regulars at the Villita assembly hall was followed by Breathalyzer tests to make sure the voters were sober enough to drive home. Their "votes" consisted of buying $5 margarita cocktails in the name of their favorite candidate. For Colorado Senator Gary Hart, whose Texas backers drank only 39 margaritas in his behalf, it was a setback after he had leaped into contention at a showdown in Senator Alan Cranston's home state of California. In the candidates' division of the Calaveras County Jumping Frog contest, Hart's frog surprised pundits by leaving the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straws Blowing in the Wind | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...Johnson was called in to investigate. A technical associate in radiological sciences with the University's department of Environmental Health and Safety EHS. Johnson questioned the researchers and other scientists in his lab and finally concluded that his hand had become contaminated and then touched his mouth as he drank coffee...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Watchdog of the Laboratories | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...couple drove to a country inn outside Potsdam. After spending the night writing letters to friends and straightening out their wills, they strolled in great good humor to the shore of a nearby lake. They drank coffee and skipped stones; then there were two shots. When the servant who had served them coffee returned, she found the bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Great Absurdist | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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