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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theme cruises are among the most popular attractions. The Seattle-based Holland America line offers a voyage for fans of Big Band music, which last year featured concerts by Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters and Nanette Fabray. Norwegian Cruise Line has organized a magic-act voyage and several sports cruises in which passengers mingle with star athletes. Other trips have been designed specifically for chocolate lovers, wine tasters, backgammon players and country-music fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The Fun Is Getting There | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

More than any other force, the war in Viet Nam alienated the American young from their elders -- and, in equally tragic ways, from one another. The war was the dark hallucination, the black magic that would come and take the young and bear them off to the other side of the world and destroy them, for reasons progressively more obscure. Lyndon Johnson had campaigned for the White House in 1964 by promising that "we are not about to send American boys 10,000 miles away to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves," but he ! ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...stage actresses," doesn't mind juggling her newfound fame with rehearsals for a Los Angeles production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind. She still loves the stage: "It's so enticing and dangerous. It's human. It might be a bad night, or it might be magic, electrifying, unforgettable." The lure of movie stardom goes both ways too. When Holly Hunter's around, you can bet on magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Reason disappears in the face of magic. You no longer say, "It can't really be happening this way," you wish it were happening this...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

Intermission came and with it, the lights. But the magic lingered. On the other side of the theater, a little girl pranced around under the area created by an arch. She twirled three times, calling to her mother, "Watch me, watch me." Her blond hair flopped as she bounced up in a mock pirouette. She spun again, playing to her now growing audience. She couldn't have been more than four, but she had fallen under the spell...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

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