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...retirement of Deng Xiaoping, 84, after a decade in power. In a scene never witnessed in the 40 years of Communist rule, more than 1,000 students assembled outside the ornate red-lacquered gate of Zhongnanhai compound, where the top leaders officially live and work. Sitting on the pavement, lotus-like, they exhorted Premier Li Peng to hear their demands, chanting, "Come out! Come...
...call comes in from the Loeb Theater. Someone at the theater needs an escort to Cabot. This time it is Van Dyke and Ford who head out into the rain. The pavement is littered with worms, around which the pair tries to maneuver...
...what about the photographs of blood on the pavement outside University Hall, and the newspaper reports of police clubbing both demonstrators and members of the national press...
...helped while away the 14-hour flight, but the Soviets missed the opportunity -- so dear to U.S. officialdom -- to "spin" the news when they provided no briefings for their captive audience. On the ground in New York City, Soviet good intentions faltered as reporters were dumped unceremoniously on the pavement outside the United Nations, one hour late for the first Soviet press briefing. When Gorbachev abruptly headed home to survey his country's earthquake damage, TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan hitched a ride to Armenia aboard an American mercy flight and happily avoided another trip on Glasnost...
...those who aspire to cackle in public and get paid for it, Poulk stresses that chance and luck are as critical as talent. "The business is crazy. You can pound the pavement for five years and be nowhere," Poulk said. "Or you might do a couple of gigs in New York and get on the David Letterman show...