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Some base houses serve as modern-day opium dens, where addicts not only purchase crack but rent pipes, hang out and get wasted. Most of these establishments are run-down and filthy, littered with ragged furniture, trash and graffiti. Rockheads will sometimes stay for days, spending whatever cash they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Welcome to the U.S. spa, 1980s style. Only a decade ago, the spa's hallmark was pampering and passivity. Fat farms, so they were called, catered to well- fed, well-spread Mrs. Plushbottoms. No longer. Most of today's spas are one- stop fitness shops, sweat-soaked emporiums where guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shake a Leg, Mrs. Plushbottom | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

On how she has changed. I am learning to say no. I was just running myself ragged, and I wasn't myself anymore. I was just like a machine. When my first month in office was over, I got hold of myself and I thought, "This is not how it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Am Learning to Say No | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

In Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

As the Borlovs submitted their applications once again, we trudged through muddy streets looking for another address. We ascended an unlit staircase and knocked on a door. A man with dark hair tumbling over a youthful face opened the door, looking first surprised and then very happy. Flustered because he...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: A Midwinter's Journey to the Soviet Union | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

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