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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing memoir of his working-class family in Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Ties | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...notable for their scorching heat and blinding sun. This season the city is being treated to a spectacle that seems a throwback to an earlier age: small bands of angry civil rights demonstrators marching, rallying and disrupting public gatherings in an effort to gain a greater voice at city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Time Machine | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Chinese dissident student leader Wuer Kaixi, who reportedly wants to attend Harvard, was in Byerly Hall this week to take placement tests and the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement. I hope he passed the QRR. Can you see the revolutionary who turned a nation of a billion people on its ear having to take an introductory statistics class because he scored only...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: The Safest Way to Go? | 8/11/1989 | See Source »

...This is just absolutely mind boggling," said Judith Hall, a geneticist from the University of British Columbia. "It's a new way of thinking." And that new way may continue to reveal subtle differences in the genetic makeup of the two sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sexy Genes | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Students say that nearly every night this summer the Gund Hall design space was being used until 3 or 4 a.m., as students worked on their weekly projects...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Living the Life of an Architecture Student | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

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