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...nation," Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall in love with Charlie Chaplin. Judy Garland sings about a rainbow, and Europeans know it is only a dream away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...higher pay in the U.S. Merchants on the American side depend heavily on sales to Mexicans, who often find items of greater variety and higher quality than in their home cities. Lately, the strong U.S. dollar and the devalued peso have sharply cut Mexican buying power and caused havoc for some U.S. border businesses. Many American shoppers in turn have been flooding into Mexico in search of bargains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Border Symbiosis | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...protesters came not to listen but to wreak havoc," Hoppenstein added. "I would have gladly heard them and fielded their questions...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: South African Diplomat Won't Testify to CRR | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

Although both comets and asteroids can wreak considerable havoc if they collide with the earth, they are of very different natures and origins. Asteroids are rocky chunks that range in size from pebbles to a mammoth named Ceres that astronomers estimate to be as much as 600 miles across. Most of them orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter and are thought to be either remnants of a planet that disintegrated early in the life of the solar system or celestial building blocks that never quite coalesced into a planet. Occasionally an asteroid is slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...sets out alone to save the world. That's not quite true. Norris has the help of the Police Prowler a remote control tank that would make Casper Weinberger seethe with jealousy. Even though he clls the Prowler another gun without a brain. Norris aces the machine to wreak havoc on lots of gangsters. It's almost like cheating but he succeeds in killing many, many men, while still emerging a hero...

Author: By Anne EMANUELLE Birn and Joan H.M. Hsiao, S | Title: Machismo on Parade | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

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