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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very nature of capitalism militates against a stable snobbery: the capitalist seeks the widest possible market; quality chases the dollars of the mob, but when the mob buys en masse, the illusion of quality, of specialness, vanishes. With metaphysical complexity, the makers of Lacoste shirts have understood this, and are making Lacoste shirts that have no alligator on them, stroke, spectacular instance of self-supersession. In one stroke, Lacoste has taken snobbery into another dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Good Snob Nowadays Is Hard to Find | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...Sakamoto, who plays the young captain (he also composed the film's haunting score). But the Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people who could do nothing individually-so they went mad en masse." Alas, he does not explain that madness; he only puts it on horrific display. -By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stout Hearts | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Cornell (4-6, 3-4). Tailback Derrick Harmon is unquestionably the league's best returning runner. He raced to 903 yards in eight games en route to All-Ivy. Academic All-American and honorable mention All-American honors. Harmon will have to do it all again this year, as the Big Red has a very little passing game...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Ivy Wreath is Up for Grabs | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...bullets, and the 10 days she spont with our group at the hotel was her first opportunity in several months to eat full meals and to take showers. The Lebanese people in general were astonishingly magnanimous, even mirthful, amid the postwar rubble; but Lulla was tired and alone. En route to the airport on our last day, we wound through Palestinian refugee camps and verdant fields pierced by the sound of artillery practice. I listened unblinkingly as the old women urged me to center my life around a devoted husband and family so that I didn't end up forsaken...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: There and Back Again | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...best Crimson baseball team since 1974 lost only three Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League showdowns en route to its 12th league pennant...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The Year That Was | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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