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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week we are taking Luce's and Hadden's notion one step further. The magazine is introducing a section called Profile, its seventh new department this decade and the first addition since Ethics appeared last January. Profile will consist of a telling, vivid word portrait of one or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Nov. 23, 1987 | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

It works astonishingly well. Screenwriter Mark Peploe has used the flashback form to cover 60 years of remote, enigmatic history, and for once the device accurately reflects reality. In the '50s, as a prisoner of the victorious Chinese Communists, Pu Yi (played as an adult by John Lone, who somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Free Fall Through History THE LAST EMPEROR | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

The show has an important function in society, keeping people lined up in front of their TV's, where they can't cause any trouble. As its host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson) is the most popular, and in many ways the most powerful, man in the country. The government wouldn...

Author: By Stephen Thau, | Title: Running Scared? | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

Integrity is certainly the most important of a public servant's requisite virtues, and strictly speaking Ginsburg and Hart failed on this account. The fundamental question raised by the Ginsburg and Hart affairs, however, is not truthfulness versus untruthfuless. It goes much deeper, asking whether any person or agency has...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Courting Disaster | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

The sun has stopped shining on the divestment issue, and activist birds have flown away to a new issue, the unionization of campus clerical and technical workers. Although both issues are, of course, important, it is discouraging to see that protesters think they must move en masse, and that interest...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Divesting of Divestment | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

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