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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the suburbs of Nashville. Look at Rembrandt and Saskia in their parlor, life-size and shining with booze! Hop into a New York City subway car left over from the pre-graffiti '60s, full of drunks, hippies, nervous housewives and one ultra- Orthodox Jew, all looking like Cabbage Patch dolls that grew up and went to seed! Walk through the big arch into the City of Chicago! Go down Wall Street and ride the Staten Island Ferry, with its twin funnels emitting scarves of metal smoke! Visit the Texas rodeo, a whole roomful of giant Celotex steers, horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corn-Pone Cubism, Red-Neck Deco | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...happened is a typical tale of oil-patch woe. When petroleum prices were high in the late 1970s, First City lent extensively to oil-rig builders and small supply firms. When prices later plunged, loan defaults skyrocketed. First City then boosted its presence in real estate loans -- and that market softened. As foreclosures mounted, First City's management offered Arabian horses, Porsches or 40-ft. yachts to new customers who maintained accounts of $100,000 and up. The gimmicks did not lure enough high rollers to stanch First City's losses, and talk of a takeover, bailout or shutdown mounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Cavalry | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...years ago Psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson of Middletown, Conn., tested 155 black and white youngsters between the ages of three and six in Headstart programs or preschools in New York City, on Long Island and in Connecticut. Using 20 Cabbage Patch dolls identical except for color, Hopson asked the children to give her the doll that "you want to be, you want to play with, is a nice color and would take home if you could." To Hopson's surprise, 65% of the black youngsters selected white dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Question of Black Pride | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

First, Phil Niekro's younger brother Joe was nabbed in a Minnesota game with an emery board in his hip pocket. He was captured on film, during an umpires' search, casually tossing something with his right hand while jettisoning something else with his left. A patch of sandpaper, described by the umps as "contoured for a finger," was also recovered from the grass. Niekro was ejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batty Balls: Unkindest Cuts of all | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...departure gate, mechanics discovered that a loose bolt had punched a hole in a 727's fuel tank, causing a leak. King says the hole was plugged with an unauthorized, quick-hardening plastic sealer so that the plane could depart. A supervisor concealed the improper patch job by not recording it in the aircraft's logbook. The hole was not correctly repaired with a metal plate until later that week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions About Eastern | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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