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Iraq attacked two Iranian oil facilities last week; the damage was apparently slight, and Iran did not respond. While the Arab states tried to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for its intransigence, Syria, at the behest of the Saudis, sent to Tehran a delegation headed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Fight to the Finish | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

To the average Harvard theater-goer who hears the names Warner and Rauch constantly lumped together, that difference--a very definite one in style and approach--may not be apparent. Superficial similarities do abound. Both Rauch and Warner wince at words like "experimental" and "avant-garde," but one thing is...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The two masks of Harvard drama | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

So the experience of Normandy, bloody as it was, has a kind of moral freshness in the American imagination, a quality of collective heroic virtue for which the nation may be wistful. Liberation meant something very wonderful and literal then. It had not acquired the cynical, even Orwellian overtone one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Fiftieth Anniversary of June 6, 1944 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

(8 of 10) performer who is known to have searched for wisdom. MacLaine describes, to her Broadway audiences, step by step, a trek into the Himalayas, led by emissaries from a far-off holy man. At last she reaches him, asks for his guidance, and hears his musical reply: "Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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