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...Today everything is gloomy and vacillating, a lot of people are hoping for a bloodletting, for atrocities and cruelties with all the 'ancient attributes': tyranny, the iron fist, a threatening master, army order. Already from every quarter appeals are heard to curtail Ogonyok editor Vitali Korotich; he irritates them more than anything else, and now the hosts of the 'loyal and prudent' are marching on him . . . No matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would I Move Back? | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Fish suddenly thrust his fist up in the air and shouted, "Yeah. What a match...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Saying Goodbye to a Coaching Legend | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

...contrast to the good manners of Cromwell, Rich and Henry VIII is the King's belligerent advisor, Cardinal Wolsey (David Condon), who takes a more direct tack in getting More to sanction the King's divorce. Condon stomps his fist on the table, puts out candles with his bare hands and barks out his lines in Sylvester Stallone fashion. Despite all of this activity, however, Condon's energies are in vain. He convinces neither More nor the audience with his overbaked histrionics. By contrast, Margaret Meserve, who plays the Spanish Catholic spy Signora Chapuys, could have borrowed...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: More Than a History Lecture | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

...Selling tickets for $12, they're losing money hand over fist," said Imondi. "How can you give your product away like that and then claim to the court you're bankrupt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 31,500 Cross Picket Line to Fly Eastern | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...doing everything from being obnoxious to getting out of the car and provoking fights at intersections," he says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors I stuck my fist through, indentations in walls I kicked." Chamberlain grew so despondent, he recalls, that he "held a gun to my head once or twice." Others have succeeded in committing suicide. Warns Aaron Henry, 22, a St. Charles, Mo., drug counselor whose adolescent dependence on steroids drove him close to physical and mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shortcut to The Rambo Look | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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