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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyway, if it doesn't have the book you are looking for, Revolution will probably have six or seven related ones that you somehow end up buying. The stock is large, but unreliable. While Revolution has a wide variety of books, if you see something you want there on Monday, buy it--it may well not be in stock by Wednesday...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: No Bookstore Is the Same | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...brandishing fire bombs and guns financed by "overseas reactionary political forces." The reluctant soldiers exercised maximum self-restraint, but were finally compelled to open fire. Even then, General Li Zhiyun insisted last week at a press conference, "it never happened that soldiers fired directly at the people." In the end, nearly 100 soldiers and policemen were killed putting down the "counterrevolutionaries." Civilian casualties totaled no more than 100 dead, perhaps a thousand wounded. That's the official story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Deng's Big Lie | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...investment dollars. Hotels averaged only 30% occupancy last week, and seven temporarily closed their doors. More important for China's economic outlook, international organizations were reassessing their involvement. The World Bank is reconsidering more than $700 million in new loans that were scheduled for delivery to China by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Deng's Big Lie | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Crash says, more or less, "Never mess with a winning streak." Costner is too restless to take that advice. If moviegoers are embracing him only as a sanctified jock, maybe they should brace themselves for Revenge, scheduled for release early next year. This violent drama may upend -- or just end -- Costner's current image as a Goody Two-Cleats. "Revenge is shocking, vulgar, a bit of a fall from grace," Costner says. "But I have no problem playing a man who isn't likable, as long as I understand him. Revenge is strong medicine; you won't come out feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Greene may be the most elusive big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair, are yet to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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