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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer: "I'm stupefied, flabbergasted. We just never thought something like this could happen." So battered was the Corps that Marine Major General Carl Mundy resorted to an otherworldly defense when grilled by a House committee. He paraphrased the optimistic -- and now ironic -- Marine hymn: "If you look on heaven's scenes, you'll find the streets are guarded by United States Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crawling with Bugs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...happiness. Politics rears its somewhat ugly head in each woman's life--complete with bizarre schemes and dangerous, extremely good-looking spies--usually to the woman's utter dismay. And the otherworldly is present in large measure; the dead return to life, women develop into telepaths, angels fall from heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tales of Three Women | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

IMAGINE HERDS of wild boars (HGGPAVs), cleverly driven across Communist borders at the onset of a crisis, roaming free behind enemy lines. Heaven help the Warsaw Pact's air force! Then consider the boars' utility as anti-personnel weapons. An AK-47-toting infantryman who thinks nothing of charging fortified NATO positions will quake in his boots when he sees a ton of angry pork charging...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...total receipts probably approach $2 billion a year. To critics as well as concerned believers, the industry often seems more concerned with bucks than Bibles, and with the personality cults more than the spirit of Christ. Captivated by the unholy row, newspaper-headline writers christened the improprieties Godscam, Godsgate, Heaven'sgate, Salvationgate, Pearlygate and Gospelgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...Morricone has been nominated a second time for an Oscar (the first was for Days of Heaven). His score for The Mission, a large-scale parable of clericalism and colonialism in 18th century South America, is one of the loveliest he has ever done. The composer concedes, "This music represents me nearly completely." Says Leone: "It's practically like a sung mass." Morricone's mother, who is 83, has a slightly different perspective. "These Americans!" she said when Morricone's wife Maria called with the nomination news. "It is four or five years that they should have given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ennio Morricone: The Lyrical Assassin at 5 a.m. | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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