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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just can't hold on too long. Every day I think of leaving a message to some friends and teachers and throwing myself from the school's roof. I always think of that. How about my sisters? If I die it will be better because it was gonna happen anyway . . . Things will be much easier away from him, my life, my school work, my health and my eyes. I hate. I have to kill him someday, take his brains out, slashing his face and my mother's too, if she cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...plane's belly. The scenes inside the aircraft had the claustrophobic intensity of Das Boot; the crew members were credibly scared and human; and the suspense built as relentlessly as in Jaws. Despite a fanciful and unsatisfying climax, the show was a small masterpiece. It may not happen again all season. But were it not for the anthology revival, it might not have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Out of the Series Straitjacket | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...dramatic decline could be on the way. By next spring the seasonal drop in demand for heating oil is likely to aggravate the global petroleum surplus. "This collapse occurred in anticipation of trouble," said Constantine Fliakos, who follows the oil industry for Merrill Lynch. "You can imagine what will happen when the real flooding of an already glutted market begins." A price war would be a risky, last-ditch change in strategy for OPEC, which has been floundering in an ocean of crude. For the past four years OPEC has tried to shore up prices by limiting the worldwide oversupply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for an Oil-Price War | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...happen to be quite familiar with the sordid, little history of Joseph Menn and the somewhat bigger more sordid story of the ISO. So at the risk of making you nauseous, gentle reader, we wish to relate to some of the choicest parts of this tale in the interests of public sanitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...mounting that the message will not be discounted. In the Dominican Republic, six publishers are pressing a court challenge against that nation's colegio. And in Peru, Editor Enrique Zileri sees the Schmidt decision as the end of any oppressive threat from licensing. He exulted, "It can't happen here." Although gratified about the victory, Attorney Marks feels the battle has barely been joined. Said he: "Now we've got to go to work on the legislatures of those other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Strong Message to Censors | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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