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The moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport 1945: Branch Breaks the Ice, Hires Jackie Robinson As Shortstop | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC 1956: Teeners' Hero Elvis Aaron Presley | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Ever since their birth in the mid- '70s as the art school brats of the Manhattan punk family. Talking Heads have been the living epitome of progress for progress's sake, the petulant seekers of the edge of accessibility simply because it was there Things got started with the paranoiac...

Author: By Michael J. Abramoute, | Title: Hypnotized | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

San Francisco, which realized that Los Angeles could hardly play host to both the convention and the 1984 Summer Olympics, had to overcome intense eleventh-hour lobbying efforts by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Washington Mayor Marion Barry and Chicago's Harold Washington, who argued that the selection of one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Party Goes to san Francisco | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

The man seeks laughter, as a train rider so jolted he pops his grapes into his seat mate's mouth, and tears, as a soldier whose trench mate dies in his arms. The man loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Silent Night | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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