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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However keen Moscow may be to cut its losses, some analysts are certain that the U.S.S.R. will prolong the occupation rather than allow a mass killing of Afghan Communists or the installation of an openly anti-Soviet government. But the latter may be unavoidable in the long run. Said a Western diplomat in Kabul last week: "Without Soviet troops, this government could not last six months. This is the dying gasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Show 'Em the Way To Go Home | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

MANY OF the performers and producers behind last spring's stellar production of Ain't Misbehavin' are also behind this production of Sweeney Todd. It's a big jump from the easy-going, cabaret-like, no-frills intimacy of the former to the moody, sprawling spectacle of the latter, but Director Brenda Walker and company pull...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: A Cut Above | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...these scenes of Greenwich Village bohemia were all Demuth did, he would be remembered as a minor aesthete, somewhere between Aubrey Beardsley and Jules Pascin, though arguably much superior to the latter. But Demuth was, by any standards, an exceptional watercolorist, and his still lifes and figure paintings, with their wiry contours and exquisite sense of color, the tones discreetly manipulated by blotting, are among the best things done in that medium by an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charles Demuth amid the Silos | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...halftime, coach told us to just keep running," Hayes said, noting that Smith likes to utilize the squad's overall speed and running game to wear down opponents in the latter stages of games. "As long as we could keep it up and collapse on their big people inside, we knew we would be all right...

Author: By Robert E. M. grady, | Title: Women Cagers Haunt Rice Owls, 75-74 | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...those travails are merely the beginning. Heading home from a marketing meeting in New York City and rudely denied his customary first-class air accommodations, he is wedged into a center seat in the tourist section between an old gentleman who snores and a chubby gentleman who chats. The latter is Del Griffith (John Candy), a salesman of shower-curtain rings and not at all Neal's kind of guy. He dresses funny, is too eager to be helpful, and has abominable snacking habits. Most reprehensible, he stole a cab from Neal when both were fighting their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Worst-Case Scenario PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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