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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businesses in Arizona and California river settlements were flooded, and vital tourist business was badly crimped. "This is a man-made disaster, and there's no excuse for it," says Sandy Fields, owner of the Castle Rock Shores Resort in hard-hit Parker, Ariz. "It's just plain stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somber Prelude to the Fourth | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

Indeed, it seems the only thing that's plain anymore is that the world of ice cream has changed drastically in recent years...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Business as Usual? | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

...rate of about $1 for a portion the size of a medium bag of chips. Interesting prodicts, though, also deserve interesting containers, and Gainsborough offers that his popcorn will also be sold in 1-, 4 1/2-, 6-, and 16-gallon cans. Of course, the cans will be anything but plain--artists have been hired to design them with colorful drawings, lithographs and decals...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Business as Usual? | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

...million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER OF SOLIDARITY. Others laid flowers along the papal path or held up plain wooden crosses as tokens of what their nation had suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Native | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts are plain, without any emblazonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

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