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"Michael used to say, when he wrote, he'd write for everyone," says his mother Katherine, "even though the music business would list it as rhythm and blues because of him being black." The combined evidence of the bottom line, the hard listen and the long view is difficult to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Onstage, half a dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Holding the referendum at all is an insult to the hundreds of undergraduates who paid $10 to fund a body elected to make such decisions for them. Governing by referenda is in general an unwieldy process, not only because it takes up time and money, but because it does not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refuse to Vote | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the paper there were emotional farewells from columnists, some of whom, like the sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: Death of an Afternoon | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

This first round of offers appears to come with the territory if a Miss America expresses thespian designs. With the exception of Bess Myerson (1945), winners seem to find sustaining a career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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