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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place in her native Taiwan's national piano competition, the Los Angeles resident has put together an extraordinary string of musical accolades: soloing with the Taipei Municipal Symphony orchestra, playing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic 10 times, and winning a spate of competitions, including the concerto contest at the Manhattan School of Music, where she spent a year before coming to Harvard...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Romantic Interlude | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...team, a mediocre squad at best, played the first 10 games, and produced a lowly 4-6 record, which included losses to Division II Merrimack and Manhattan. Those were the worst of times...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Tell A Tale of Two Seasons | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

...company won't release figures, but it claims the tapes are selling well, mostly through catalogs. Meanwhile, pet shop owners profess unconcern. Says one Manhattan doggie vendor: "The next thing you know they'll come out with video husbands and wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...glassy towers designed by late-modernist architectural stars -- one a rather awkward quasi-spiral by Kevin Roche, the other a larger, more elegant tower by Charles Gwathmey. Both, although not their architects' best work, look to be at least as good as the run of new commercial buildings in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Renewal, But a Loss Of Funk | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Growing up, Tracy Gary lived in opulent homes in Manhattan, Bal Harbour, Fla., and on Lake Superior's Madeline Island, traveling among them in the family plane, helicopter and yellow Rolls-Royce. Parties and presents were plentiful, including a Ford Mustang for high school graduation. At 21, Gary received the ultimate gift: a $2 million inheritance. Most people would have been overjoyed, but the windfall only intensified her long-held feelings of guilt, isolation and impotence. "I was overwhelmed," says Gary, now 36, who lives in San Francisco. Her problem: the plague of anxieties that seems to afflict a growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Woes of Being Wealthy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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