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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some passengers took pains to collect their baggage, others jumped the aisles, making their way to the yellow fire-resistant chutes that unfurled outside the emergency exits. Just before sliding down to safety, Stanley Miller of Rego Park, N.Y., turned to look back; his left cheek, ear and arm were seared by flames. Said he: "I shall never forget the screaming, never." Miraculously, most of those aboard, including the pilot and ten crew members, managed to get out of the plane. But 50, most of them seated in the rear of the plane, died in the inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: A Grisly Triptych of Disasters | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milton Avery's Rich Fabric of Color | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...instance, let's say that scientists have discovered a startling new source of low-calorie roughage. In a report to the Great Neck Ear, Eye and Throat Consortium, Drs. Hugo and Margot Frodo explained "Ground glass provides the gritty texture crucial to a person's roughage intake. Consumed in bulk, we predict that glass will improve regularity without fear of cholesterol accumulation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Stan the Man | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

...Stanley provides for you. You root out faulty linkage between evidence and conclusion. Indeed, which information if true will most weaken the author's discussion? What is the, most appropriate title for this passage--"Ground Glass: Roughage for the Eighties" or "Startling New Discovery Turns Roughage Biz on its Ear...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Stan the Man | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

Thank you for the brief history of the tragic Armenian-Turkish conflict of World War I [Aug. 23]. Articles like yours help people understand why the Armenians are resorting to violence. If the world had listened years ago instead of turning a deaf ear to the cries of the surviving Armenians, there would be no need for terrorist acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1982 | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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