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With their splotched and mottled shirts, long hair and boots, the Australian quartet looked 15 years behind the times, but the music they turned out was the kind of straight-ahead sound that inspires adolescent guitarists of all ages. The hundreds of people packed into the Channel didn't know...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Gurus From Down Under | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Now it is something in a novel. Bradbury calls it Death Is a Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Casmalia Resources is open 24 hours, and every day about a hundred trucks roll in and out. The vast site could be on Mars. Hills and canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

It has ever been thus, for American cinema is truly an immigrant art form, made by immigrants for immigrants. From the beginning, each group of outsiders -- the ones behind the scenes and the ones gazing at the screen -- fed each other's good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Although both comets and asteroids can wreak considerable havoc if they collide with the earth, they are of very different natures and origins. Asteroids are rocky chunks that range in size from pebbles to a mammoth named Ceres that astronomers estimate to be as much as 600 miles across. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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