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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This may be true, but parody is also an extremely difficult technique to master, and in the case of Green's film Video Sickness, the amount of hard work put into the project only occasionally results in brilliant humor...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Sickness with a Cure | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

Eduardo Lozano, a former professor of urban planning at Harvard University who has helped rebuild devastated cities in Peru and Nicaragua, said Sunday he will draft a master plan for the city. Lozano and officials in Moscow and Armenia, a Soviet republic, agreed on the plan last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Professor to Rebuild Armenian City | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...said his master plan will call for reconstructing the 75- to 150-year old stone buildings in the city's center, which withstood the quake much better than the newer apartment blocks on the outskirts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Professor to Rebuild Armenian City | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...firm, which has 20 employees, planned the reconstruction of a university campus outside of Lima, Peru, and drafted a master plan for Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, after it was hit by a huge quake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Professor to Rebuild Armenian City | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...with Harold Adrian Russell ("Kim") Philby, whose exploits as a Soviet mole inside Britain's Secret Intelligence Service seem breathtaking enough to have been crafted by a master of the thriller genre. The son of an eccentric Arabist, Philby entered Communism's orbit while at Cambridge in the 1930s. Carefully disguising those links, he joined Britain's SIS and rose high enough in its ranks to rate consideration as its potential chief. Yet by the time he disappeared in 1963, only to surface in the Soviet Union a few months later, it was painfully clear that Philby all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Supermole | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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