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...cramped on the outside, that husk of a booze-wracked body, but he didn't live there. He came to life inside, with way too many other people -- the loves, enemies and chances he had lost -- in the decaying mansion of his memories. What a lovely movie might dwell there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slumming in The Lower Shallows IRONWEED | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...bill, however, has not been enacted, and last week's arrivals will be interviewed individually to determine if they are entitled to stay. Because Canadian law allows anyone who claims refugee status to live in the country until all appeals have been exhausted, Janice Hines' early-morning visitors could dwell in Canada for as long as four years even if they are eventually deported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees We Say Hello | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Like a man running out of time, Mikhail Gorbachev did not dwell on niceties. Instead, he faced the 307-member Central Committee of the Communist Party and cut straight to the heart of his concern: the Soviet Union's bureaucracy- burdened economy. With characteristic candor, the Soviet leader faulted his predecessors for entrenching a system that promoted inefficiency, hampered industrial growth and destroyed national morale. Only "radical reform," he insisted, could put the economy back on its feet. In a challenge to his conservative critics, Gorbachev declared, "The possibilities of socialism . . . will be judged precisely by the progress and results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Moscow's Man in a Hurry | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...didn't think about [the streak] much," Greg Lee said. "All us seniors sort of thought about it. We didn't want to be the class that blew it. We joke about it, but we didn't dwell...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen: 58 and Counting | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...picture of my past, but to help me work through things that were bothering me, and give me advice on how to "balance" myself. He mentioned that I was too much of a perfectionist and let minor setbacks upset me more than they should. He said I should not dwell on the negative, but on the positive, adding that if I started to think negative thoughts, I should just say, "Fuck that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Psychic Experience | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

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