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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visions and soaring above the grimy world of facts. Before his New Right admirers, he envisions an America governed by Christian libertarians who would strip the federal government of all responsibilities save national defense and religious guidance. Before poorer, small-town, Old Southerners he extolls a "Walton's mountain vision"-an American based on family virtues, discipline and leadership, the American Dream, and a thinly veiled segregation. Helms admits that he doesn't mind doing what Hunt calls "opening racial wounds," as he doesn't expect any Black votes...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Hunt, Helms Held Hostage | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...there." There means India, the answers, once again, mean nothing. Filmed on location, the Indian seenes could just as effectively have superimposed Murray onto a set of postcards. If a Salada tea bag were a person, it just might be the mystic on top of the Indian mountain. "The path to salvation," the mystic intones in Dan Rather style Mid-westernese, "is narrow and as difficult to walk as razor's edge...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Big Mouth Finds the Meaning of Life | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

...Larry Herndon, the silent Tiger who had an equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around the bases, Bevacqua reflected, "I've had a lot of valleys in my career; I've probably reached the top of the mountain tonight." Or at least somewhere between the roof of the Imperial Bank Building and heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Not-So-Classic Fall Classic | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...paintings and drawings, this show epitomizes the Met's leanings to cultural Reaganism: private opulence, public squalor. Weeks of private viewings have led up to its actual public opening, this week. Rarely has the idea of artistic heroism been so conspicuously tied to the ascent of the social mountain. But now all this will change. The general public, one may predict, will see very little. Its members will struggle for a peek through a milling scrum of backs; will be swept at full contemplation speed (about 30 seconds per image) through the galleries; will find their hope to experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Visionary, Not the Madman | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

This summer break dancers have appeared in commercials for McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew. R.H. Bruskin, a New Jersey market research firm, estimates that some 30% of U.S. teen-agers have tried break dancing. The company does not estimate how many of them may have broken an arm or a leg in the process. But would-be breakers no longer have to risk aches and sprains to get their kicks. A Silicon Valley firm, Epyx, has marketed a video game called Breakdance. Its joystick-controlled hero, named Hot Feet, knows more than 400 different moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through to Big Profits | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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