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Leonid Abalkin, director of the economic institute of Moscow's Academy of Sciences, blames bureaucratic mistakes, a drop in energy prices and even high clean-up costs after the Chernobyl nuclear accident for the lack of progress. But he also points a finger at the "inconsistency, indecisiveness and halfway measures" that pervade the reform program, largely as a result of compromises with conservative foot-draggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Too Far, Too Fast? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...lead, and held it. Lewis, on the other hand, got a characteristically slower start, but instead of accelerating past his adversary, he looked to his right three times, always to see Johnson in front of him. Before he even crossed the finish line, Big Ben raised his index finger to signal that he was still No. 1. Carl Lewis had run faster than in Rome -- but lost by more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic On the Track | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Click. A son sits alone for hours at his mother's deathbed after she has died. What he later recalls most poignantly is the Band-Aid on her finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memory's Screen THE MAGIC LANTERN | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...lonely woman's dream. She needs a son, so he'll be one, a cross between Dennis the Menace and Oedipus. He will play on her longing and guilt, in baby talk that moves her: "You never cuddled me, did you? . . . And you never let me follow your finger along the line of nice big $ words ((like)) 'Once upon a time.' " He will relive what was never his, "my American childhood," by tossing tantrums like a spoiled four-year-old. He will learn that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adventures of A Career Kid TRACK 29 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Freddy Krueger merchandise have topped $15 million. The Freddy mask and hat outsold all other Halloween costumes last year. New Line reports brisk sales for two Nightmare books, five LPs and a board game. You can buy Freddy dolls, the familiar sweater and the signature glove (with plastic finger-knives). He's got his own fan club and MTV special. And come October, a 900 chat line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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