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That problem will not affect Times Beach, Mo. Windows in the houses there are boarded up, and the wind whistles down the lonely streets of a newly created ghost town. Last year more than 2,000 inhabitants left when the water and ground were found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hazards Of a Toxic Wasteland | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...instance, "liberal white guiltiness" is supposed to explain the sympathy of white radicals for Black militants "The ghost of Senator for McCarthy" is palmed for the moderate distrust of radicals. And in a remarkable passage, a few scattered antiwar demonstrations are credited with the "quarantine" of President Johnson...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: The Ghosts of Protests Past... | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

Each of the twenty-five short chapters that make up Home Before Dark seems to be written as a separate diary entry, with the daughter warmly circling around the ghost of her father until she has "worked him out for herself." There is a feeling in this book that everything was meant as a therapeutic exercise for one daughter's unusually strong affiliation with...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: The Lives of John Cheever | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...like one in the ice palace of Superman's heritage from Krypton. Carl, at that moment in any case, is elsewhere. Carl has proliferated a little. His flagship self is steaming across town on some business, plowing along through conventional time. His ancillary self, his butler self, the ghost in the machine, is waiting in its little timelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: At the Sound of the Beep... | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

WHEN SUPERMAN is out of the Galaxy, Indiana Jones in the classroom, and Ghost busters working on their next movie, who va gonna call for some superior supernaturally super heroic cinematic relief? Unfortunately, not Supergirl...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Call Off the Celluloid | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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