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...address his people. The Marines spread out in firing positions alongside tanks and personnel carriers, while Grenadians sat looking back from their front steps on the opposite hillside. A U.S. tank sprang into life, firing into a hill with thick green vegetation, making a direct hit on an ammo dump and an antiaircraft position. One young man who sat watching the scene admitted that he too was once for the revolution. Now, reluctantly, he welcomed the invaders. "It's a sad solution, but there seemed to have been no other way," he said. "The military would have ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images from an Unlikely War | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...lunch some time?"; Dictated but not signed; "That's a no-brainer, Smith"; "Does Mr. Harris know what this call is in regard to?"; Signed but not dictated; "Let's lunch"; Out of ink; Not dictated, not signed; "Ever free for lunch?"; "Smith, give me a mind-dump on this by tomorrow"; Best wishes, Best regards, Warmest wishes, All best, All warmest; Dictated but not read; To the staff: Due to heavy losses in the last quarter . . .; "May I speak to you - privately?"; Out of order; Out to lunch; "So you're Smith. We've heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...chartered air ambulance. But when he arrived, MacDonald was so weak that he had to be admitted to San Francisco General Hospital. Mayor Dianne Feinstein charged that the transfer was "outrageous and inhumane," and Mervyn Silverman, the city's public health director, declared that the episode was "a dump of the worst kind" and accused Florida of "abandoning" an AIDS patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Dilemma | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...easiest way to praise a film is to call it poetic. The easiest way to dump on a film is to call it unrealistic. Believability is the line drawn in the dirt; on either side are warring sensibilities, rival gangs of moviegoers or critics. Seen this way, the defenseless movie is reduced to a Rorschach inkblot, an excuse for prolonging the debate between fantasy and naturalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time Bomb | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...conservative Independent and the liberal Cambridge--Civic Association (CCA) councilors alike were troubled for the second straight meeting by a recent methane fire at the city dump, and called City Manager Robert W. Healy and Acting Public Works Commissioner Everett Kennedy before the council to give a report...

Author: By Catherine I. Schimdt, | Title: Dumps, Dublin Are Issues At Council | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

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