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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined, investigators decided that it started in the kitchen of the ground-floor delicatessen. James Kalb was across the street when the conflagration broke out. "I heard this great big explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Death, Absolute Death | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...example, was known as "Project 571." The indictment alleges that Lin, who was then Mao's official heir, plotted to kill the Great Helmsman while he was on an inspection tour of southern China. The plan was to attack Mao's special train "with flame throwers and bazookas, to dynamite the railway bridge [over which the train was to pass], bomb the train from the air, blow up the oil depot near the train stop in Shanghai, and then assassinate the Chairman in the ensuing commotion." The indictment sheds no light on how the Great Helmsman, whose improbable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Gang of Four on Trial | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: They Know Not What They Do | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...turns savage with frightening speed, manipulating her husband with thinly disguised sexuality. But the unmitigated passion which drives her can go just as easily the other way, into fear and insanity, and she crumbles beautifully, back into the flapper and beyond into girlhood. Searing her hand on a candle flame, she tragically reminds us of an inner power that once tried to unsex her but never succeeded...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Trouble in Scotland | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

...defense stole four interceptions. Last season Elway gave up a total of three. This was the player that Stanford coach Paul Wiggin called a "flame thrower...like a Terry Bradshaw." Saturday night, however, the flame had never been lit for Elway, who failed to employ All-American senior flanker Ken Margerum...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: B.C. Played Football; Stanford Just Played | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

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