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The gentlemen in question represent the classic poles of soul. Sweet Pea Atkinson sports an open shirt and a pirate's booty of gold chains that make him look, according to a standing band joke, like "a killer pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

The Pittsburgh dispute invites the high bench to revisit one of its most controversial and opaque rulings. In a 1984 case from Pawtucket, R.I., the Justices upheld the constitutionality of a town-supported creche in a display that included reindeer, Santa's house and candy-striped poles, saying the overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Revisiting The Reindeer Rule | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Not since the Polish-born John Paul II was elevated to the papacy in 1978 had so many Poles tuned in to a television broadcast. The occasion: the live telecast last week of a 42-minute debate between Alfred Miodowicz, head of the country's official trade-union federation, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Walesa 8, Government 2 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

By common agreement, Walesa won easily. He charged that opportunities for radical change exist in Poland but said, "We are not making use of them. It seems what we are doing is still salvaging the remnants of a Stalinist model." The next day even Communist Party officials gave him admiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Walesa 8, Government 2 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

But enough of mothers. It wasn't the womb I wanted to escape to. Outside the windows of the steaming, snorting, rolling chunk of industry and metal we call the Commuter Line, the usual stuff was flashing past--you know, telephone poles, lonely decaying buildings, clothes flapping on the line...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

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