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Strange and different? Yes, very. But not quite as strange and different as it would have seemed a couple of years ago. Novoye myshleniye (new thinking), Mikhail Gorbachev calls this vision of a new international order. The phrase has become a standard entry in Gorbachev's lexicon, along with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Cold War Fade Away? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Now Clemens, last year's Dwight Gooden, is the Cy Young winner and MVP of the American League. One season short of arbitration eligibility, he is the sorest of all the unhappy players automatically renewed by their clubs (in his case for $450,000, up $110,000). Two weeks ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Springing for The Check | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Parker cannot be held solely responsible for the film's ludicrous content. Credit must also go to William Hjortsberg, whose novel Falling Angel Parker adapted. Surely the author must be held responsible for such linguistic masterworks as Harry Angel, Louis Cyphre (as DeNiro states, "Mephistopheles is a mouthful in Manhattan...

Author: By Joseph D. Penachio, | Title: Peeping With Parker | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Even by the tongue-twisting standards of the Star Wars lexicon, the newcomer is something of a mouthful: space-based kinetic kill vehicles, or SBKKVs for short. Some scientists refer to them as "smart rocks," since they are basically just projectiles designed to smack into enemy missiles. But they also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Star Wars to Smart Rocks | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

But that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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