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...neither the time nor the organization to file full slates and get the necessary signatures to be listed in many places. Nevertheless, it will become mathematically more difficult for any of the five others to forge a majority, especially if the popular fascination with Hart and Jackson continues to overshadow them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

While the investigation into campus perceptions was prompted by a racial slur spray painted on a campus building last spring, the study uncovered other kinds of prejudice that some people fear will overshadow the issue of racism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...power of negative thinking, or, as one Alnilamist puts it, "Everything will be simple: simple and deep. There won't be anything else; only nihilism and music." Compared with the allusive qualities of the book, such statements can seem as obvious as a Goodyear blimp. But they cannot overshadow Dickey's talent for mating small details, his audacious lyric power and technical risks. At times he splits the page into two columns, the left registering the impressions of Cahill, the right a simultaneous visual sighting of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into The Wild, Mystical Yonder ALNILAM | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...bestseller 90 Degrees in the Shade. While the resulting film, Betty Blue, was the tale of an artist struggling against a world of assholes, Frank's story is that of a teenager named Chris (Valerie Kaprisky) struggling against the sterile adult promiscuity and warped class relations which overshadow life on a French beach...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: L'Annee de Meduses | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

...likelihood the commission's new data will overshadow its recommendations on improving the NSC operation. The probe back through history has shown that the system has worked pretty well, according to one participant. "There have been screw-ups in every Administration," says this fellow. "In the end it comes down to people. Good people make it work. Get bad people and it fails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Even Reagan Was Somber | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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