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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students with "the Harvard look" could find themselves casted for a motion picture this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Casting Call | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...bill to raise the Massachusetts drinking age to 21 moved closer to passage when the motion reached a second hearing on the State House floor yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinking Age | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

...with Adams' music, too often the two clash: the sounds urgent, the movements passive. Further, visual minimalism palls more quickly than its aural counterpart, and beside Adams' expanded vocabulary, Childs' monochromaticism looks dated. By definition, being a member of the avant-garde means always being in motion, like running up a down escalator: if you are not actively moving forward, you are surely moving backward. -By Michael Walsh

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Minimalists 3 | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1938: Four Chiefs, One Peace: Czechoslovakia | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...jumped and loped across the barren landscape for 2 hrs. 14 min., while the TV camera they had set up some 50 ft. from Eagle transmitted their movements with remarkable clarity to enthralled audiences on earth, a quarter of a million miles away. Sometimes moving in surrealistic slow motion, sometimes bounding around in the weak lunar gravity like exuberant kangaroos, they set up experiments and scooped up rocks, snapped pictures and probed the soil, apparently enjoying every moment of their stay in the moon's alien environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON 1969: A Giant Leap for Mankind | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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