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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The photograph appeared in LIFE's Aug. 11, 1941, issue and later became a ubiquitous pinup during World War II: a surrealistically gorgeous woman partially dressed in a shimmering negligee knelt on a bed and smiled enigmatically over her bare left shoulder. Inspired by this stunning vision in black-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Life of a Love Goddess | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

The narrative's first volume, Berlin Game, began with heavy irony, as Deighton's hero Bernard Samson, a British agent watching for trouble at the Wall, asked his friend Werner Volkmann, "How long have we been sitting here?" and Volkmann answered sourly, "Nearly a quarter of a century." Spy Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

All this has bubbled cheerfully in the two novels that followed Berlin Game in Deighton's first Samson trilogy, Mexico Set and London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Maybe longer. Rifkin, 44, enjoys most the college lectures that often have him flying two to four times a week. One recent swing took the Rifkin show to Alfred University in upstate New York. As usual, he charmed and joked, provoked and pleased. He lectured the freshman class about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Hated Man In Science: JEREMY RIFKIN | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

George Bush did not get where he is today by taking chances or questioning conventional wisdom, particularly on the No. 1 life-or-death issue of U.S. foreign policy. As a Congressman, diplomat, Republican Party chairman, Vice President and presidential candidate, he was always the sort of politician who fretted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Road to Malta | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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