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...Union. The lines are still long and still slow. Braying fools still jump ahead of you to be with their friends. People still get in the right line because it's shorter when the left line is much closer to the food. There is still a mad mob around the drinks and the salad bar and breakfast pastries...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...versions of the truth could still be found. Pushing my way past a mob of women lined up on the Tambov pedestrian mall to buy yellow tights, I had stepped into a bookshop. On display were paperbacks from a series called Imperialism: Acts, Facts and Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...surging mob, clothed in the nondescript chic of their politics and their youth. Posters of red fists, clinched in defiance. A carnival of long hair and bell bottoms juxtaposed against the strict lines and austere faces of the oil paintings in the Faculty room...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Images of Confrontation: Red Fists, Blue Helmets | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

...DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak." During Rose's own hitting streak in 1978 -- the National League standard of 44 -- he was caught in a paternity suit, and his marriage was dissolving. Only between the white lines of the field was he serene. Last week, before a mob of reporters, he tried for that carefree athletic slouch when he said, "This is great. My players can experience the kind of atmosphere they'll be facing in October." But his tone was tinny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sad Ordeal of Mr. Baseball | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. Not much is new in this off-Broadway tale of an old family company menaced by corporate raiders, but the acting is superb, especially by Mercedes Ruehl (Married to the Mob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 6, 1989 | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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