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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greens have been characterized as anti-American. This seems increasingly to be true, if only because their anti-nuclear efforts must necessarily be directed primarily against the United States Again, however, this should not be a reason for turning a blind eye to ward Soviet intransigence. While the Soviets have taken it upon themselves to interrupt arms negotiations and Soviet development in Eastern Europe continues undaunted by concerns over needless escalation it is the Americans who have borne the brunt of the Greens antinuclear agitation. Specifically, their attempt to set up a working coalition with the Social Democrats in Hesse...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Moving on Thin Ice | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

...undergraduates might easily be put aside and forgotten, especially for someone who has not had a great deal of contact with them over his tenure here. In his drive to help graduate students and junior faculty--two of his stated intentions--Spence would do well to keep an eye out for one of the least well represented constituencies on campus--undergraduates. It could quickly make him a lot of friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Students | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...ministers to $100,000-a-month payments from drug traffickers. But any hope Pindling had that the inquiry would eliminate the rumors quickly backfired. At first testimony centered on lower-echelon civil servants: customs officials and police officers who were accused of accepting bribes for turning a blind eye to trafficking on the outer islands. But then witnesses began taking pot shots at the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, government ministers and finally Pindling himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bahamas: Pot Shots | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...which she created the dances. Next year she will make a full-length work for a European company, inspired by the early ballets of Mozart's time. Before that will come a June collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain be in the form of "His" and "Hers" bath towels. The sense of loss in Tharp's Fait Accompli has in part to do with the eventual prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Tharp Moves Out from Wingside | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...rash of accidents can be blamed partly on Hollywood's "Can you top this?" scramble for more daring car chases, more eye-popping special effects, more realistic action scenes. Another problem, especially in television, is rushed shooting schedules. "In episodic TV today," says veteran Director Paul Stanley, "directors are asked to do a scene in two or three days that years ago in feature films they'd have been given weeks to prepare for." To avert accidents caused by fatigue, the Directors Guild of America has proposed that shooting days for TV series be limited to no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Too Much Risk on the Set? | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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