Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America, however, had the American Revolution. And ever since that less-than-earth-shattering rebellion--shot heard round the world, or no shot heard round the world--left-wing historians in America have spent their time trying to create a legacy worth fighting for. Charles Beard attempted to play up the American revolution as a popular struggle in his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution--which purported to find a self-interested wealthy class responsible for fashioning the Constitution, thus betraying the spirit...
DARKSIDE. Stars twinkle all around and the big blue marble of earth eerily arises in a set designer's triumph in this haunting new play about astronauts on the moon, at Denver Center Theater Company...
...bigger than Montana, Japan has virtually no room left in its teeming cities. Developers have built towering skyscrapers and even artificial islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize in the early part of the next century," says Tetsuya Hanamura, the chief of Taisei Corp.'s proposed development...
...Planet of the Year issue (Jan. 2), TIME highlighted numerous threats to the earth's environment. The magazine will continue to pursue that story, covering new developments and actions taken to solve ecological problems. This is the first of our follow-up reports...
Space capsule Apollo 8 circled the moon, and encountered Spaceship Earth. The U.S. triumph provided a tonic and opened...