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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That something is not necessarily profundity, though it might be. It might also be wit, or melancholy, or languor. Classical music is not, repeat, not all serious. Once you understand its language, or languages, it has a much wider range of expression than other types of music.

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

The big secret that Celebrity Chronicler James Spada has dug up is that Philadelphia-proper, convent-educated Grace Kelly had sex before marriage, apparently a lot. While putting her affairs in order, Spada in this sad, breathless biography writes endlessly about the "duality" of Kelly's personality (fire vs. ice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 27, 1987 | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

In the photograph of Van Dorn dangling the child, the child is shown to have been penetrated but only by Van Dorn's glans and certainly not painfully, because the child, legs kicked up, is looking toward the camera with a demure, even prissy, expression. Her legs are kicking up...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Thanatos Is Comin' to Town | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

The Academy had particularly restricted thesubject matter and technique of historicalpaintings, forcing painters to depict solelyclassical and mythological subjects in anidealized style. The works of the 1860's,therefore, are strikingly novel in comparison.Nikolai Ge's "The Last Supper" (1866) reflectsthis change--the traditional scene is interpretedwith a remarkable new...

Author: By Maurie Samuels, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

It is no larger than a few grains of rice, but it was big enough to cause one of the most serious episodes between the U.S. and Japan since the end of World War II. It is the tiny microchip, a sophisticated bit of silicon that is the indispensable heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade Face-Off: A dangerous U.S.-Japan confrontation | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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