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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chores taken on by Deborah Kaplan, who also reported on the story from Los Angeles, was a canvass of Jackson's neighbors. Again that shield. Says Kaplan: "I braved iron gates, intercom mumblings and dogs, and met glares Boris Karloff would have envied. None of those neighbors would talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 19, 1984 | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

they have turned it into an iron...

Author: By Nadine F. Pinede, | Title: A Theory of Negritude | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Celibidache's Rumanian Rhapsody | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...hand-picked successor to Generalissimo Francisco Franco--who ruled Spain with an iron grip from 1939 to his death in 1975--Juan Carlos succeeded to the throne and promptly instituted a constitutional monarchy...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Will Speak at Commencement | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...crazed sex maniacs who roam the boulevard. And no matter what, despite three years of rather profitable business, none of the vice squad seems to have ever seen Angel before. Such issues are peripheral to the more critical plot twist--the mad (what else) necrophiliac who alternately pumps iron and chops up young women after making love to their corpses...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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