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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tempting? Not finishing the 26.2-mile course of the marathon, after running for what seemed almost a lifetime? Forget it. Not when McCarthy's roommate, Ronie-Richele Garcia, was running beside...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Memories of Some Harvard Runners | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...strange event was occurring before my eyes--some seniors were videotaping the whole affair! Apparently, my classmates did not want to forget how it used to be at the old Union. What better and more natural way to remember the good old days than videotape? "Smile, Sandy! It's for posterity. Remember the time we short-sheeted the proctor...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Bush's presidency has played remarkably like The Sound of Music. It might not have worked in the cold war, but that seems to be over. Comes an economic recession, forget it. But right now, in boom and blossom time on the Potomac, Bush has astonished the Beltway punditry by achieving resounding job approval (54% last week in a TIME/CNN poll, down slightly but still substantial). All the while he has been shrinking his nightly TV presence by as much as one-third compared with his predecessor's, and often he is nowhere to be seen on the front pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Just Folks Presidency | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

This extraordinary history of the French Revolution begins with a three- story-high plaster elephant standing guard in the Place de la Bastille. Commissioned by the triumphant Emperor Napoleon, eventually to be recast in the bronze of captured cannons, the elephant was designed to make Parisians forget their revolutionary past and dream of an imperial future. Its real destiny -- like the question of what to remember -- proved quite different. "By 1830, when revolution revisited Paris, the elephant was in an advanced state of decomposition," writes Harvard historian Simon Schama. "One tusk had dropped off, and the other was reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rhythm of Retribution | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...would be easy to dismiss Miss Julie as just another battle-of-the-sexes play and forget that August Strindberg's compression of dramatic form, use of prosaic, everyday language and intense psychological probing were innovations a century ago. Fortunately, a talented North House cast restores the play's power...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

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