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It was an extraordinary sight, this huge throng bathed in floodlights with the trifurcated sculpture reaching for the inky sky. But the occasion was even more extraordinary for its message. With the world anxiously looking on, representatives of union and church and state sat together on the podium, unified as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Want a Decent Life | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

But one suspects that the mystery was just an excuse, an occasion for the writing team to get off a lot of good, if rather broad show-biz jokes. Taylor and Novak, who plays her co-star and longtime rival, have a bitchy catfight, full of gags about having two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Wall | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1980 | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

The immediate focus is Bali, Indonesia, where the jet-about oil ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are gathering this week. The occasion will be OPEC's 59th ministerial meeting since the cartel was founded in 1960. Looming over all other discussions: whether to push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Seven Lean Years | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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