Word: placings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who, in little more than a week, made the journey cannot quite believe they did, and the faces of the thousands who pour through frontier crossings every day are bright with expectation. In Berlin, East Germans huddle over subway maps as they head into Western terra incognita, a place most of them know only from television; at other checkpoints their cars pile up for miles...
...Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...
...finding time to read. So we're inviting people to carve out some quality time and get into this magazine." By January "Make Time for TIME" will have found its way to magazines, television, radio, newspapers, billboards and, given Lois' penchant for invention, perhaps some as-yet-undreamed-of place as well...
...people who will be with their families, it can't come fast enough, but for those who can't see their families until Christmas, it'll probably be a hard time. Most don't stay, but about [several] don't have a place to go on Thanksgiving...
...again look for scapegoats for the disastrous state of their economy? Will West Germany encourage their cousins' potential desires for revenge? More importantly, are Germans as committed to democratic principles as they seem, or are they merely using democratic rhetoric as an excuse to reunify and regain Germany's place...