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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wildcats (now 0-4) had worked their way back from a 70-54 deficit with less than five minutes to play to pull within a point. But with a chance to tie the game, UNH forward Dave Marshall missed a free throw and the 'Cats were forced to foul Gielen...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Red Hot Cagers Scorch UNH, 74-71 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...this bizarre paradox come about? To be included on HUD's down-and- out list, a city must meet three out of six criteria of neediness. Beverly Hills fit the bill because its growth rate from 1970 to 1984 was less than 4.6%, its retail and manufacturing employment increased by less than 3.3% from 1977 to 1982, and at least 20% of its homes were built before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Relief Fund for Rodeo Drive | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Remember Madame Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society and revealed the secrets of the universe in Isis Unveiled. There were sightings of spaceships in the 1890s, at a time when no American had ever seen an airplane, much less an Apollo rocket, but then as now a century was coming to an end. Mars was once widely believed to be inhabited by little green men, so when Orson Welles declared on the radio in 1938 that space invaders had landed, much of the nation went into a panic. And do not forget The Search for Bridey Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...money gets made." But Pursel makes his real money as an art dealer and is opening a second gallery, on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. As for channeling, "it's not a business; it's a labor of love." He adds a dark warning that others are less worthy. "There's some loony tunes out there," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...reviewer in London and New York City in the '50s and early '60s, he demonstrated an unequaled gift for capturing the theatrical moment in language charged with wit, passion and a vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less than his own tumultuously responsive self as the link by which a decaying medium could re-establish its connection with our public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doing Turns on a High Wire | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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