Word: offing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The government's use of psychiatry for political purposes is particularly dangerous because it is a direct assault on the victim's mind. The problem is compounded by the inhuman, illegal conditions of detention in the special psychiatric hospitals, by the conformity and hypocrisy of our closed society and by...
He danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July...
IMAGES: A revolutionary year produces visions of freedom, defeat and resolve
Though distant and grainy, this photograph of a Chinese man standing down a tyrannical regime is the most extraordinary image of the year. It is flesh against steel, mortality against the onrush of terror, the very stuff of courage. TIME presents 20 pages of other amazing pictures from a most...
As Moscow mourns the death of a leading dissident, the President confronts attacks from both reformers and reactionaries. -- How Nelson Mandela spends his days.