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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the gravitational field around a pulsar is so strong that "It would literally lear you apart before you could even get close. It would pulverize any solid object into dust before reaching the surface," Seward says

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Bringing Dead Stars Back to Life | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

have gathered dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...When the dust had cleared, the Crimson (now 9-8) had been conquered...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Unheralded E. Nazarene Ambushes Spikers, 3-1 | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified role. Far from the veils and nuances of Paris fog and Dutch rain, it would resolve itself into tonic declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Visionary, Not the Madman | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...cereally, folks. Author Joseph Heller's fourth novel does indeed feature the biblical King David as its hero and narrator. And it offers a host of other familiar names and time-tested stories. God Knows even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

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