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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brad Whitewood Sr. (Christopher Walken) runs a scuzzy gang that makes millions breaking into company safes and hijacking tractors. His estranged wife and her mother slouch around their dreary house staring at TV. Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating his old man. You've got to act, Brad. So be a thief and impress your friends. Join your dad's gang; make him proud. Buy your girlfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is This the Family Gun, Dad? At Close Range | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Gorbachev. In his talks with Reagan and other Administration officials, Dobrynin continued to refrain from setting an actual date for a summit. But he did bring word that Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze was prepared to come to Washington for talks with Shultz on May 14 and 15 to lay the groundwork for a summit conference later this year. Dobrynin assured the President that while Gorbachev was setting no "preconditions" for the meeting, the Kremlin wanted to know ahead of time--presumably by prior agreement--what could be accomplished. The U.S. reply: fair enough. At his press conference the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West There Will Be a Summit | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Radcliffe women continued to ruin their heels on the Lamont stairs while the issue lay dormant for more than a year...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: When the Cliffies Finally Conquered Lamont | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...Just lay there, in the thinning jamboree...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Soaking Up Some Timeless Fen-Rays | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

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