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...intense and convincing is this show? During the final murder scene, my friend screamed louder than the victim...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...high-spirited spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Founders of the fraternity have repeatedly said they will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or socio-economic status. According to colony president Jonathan L. Brisman '90, the fraternity plans to mail pledge cards to every first-year male--an action which should eventually speak louder than words...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Need to Go National? | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...trying to protect by rejecting reform, though the impression he generates is more akin to paralysis. The air of confusion and impotence in East Berlin has intensified since he dropped out of sight on Aug. 14. Officially, he is recuperating from a gallbladder operation, but the whispers have grown louder that he has cancer. Even if Honecker's political life is over, his successor | is not expected to deviate from the status quo course Honecker has set. The consensus among the Politburo's 26 members (average age: 68) is that a refusal to change guarantees stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: The More Things Change . . . | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...mood of independence was further on display during Mikhail Gorbachev's visit in April, when West Germans showed an enthusiasm for the Soviet leader so wild that the Economist aptly dubbed it a "Gorbasm." Now, with West Germany absorbing huge numbers of East German refugees, talk of reunification grows louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Return of The German Question | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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