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Word: revolutionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people look back on Jan. 11, 1964, as a pivotal date in their lives. On that day U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry warned about the deadly dangers of tobacco in a blockbuster report. Frightened smokers promptly resolved to give up the habit; some scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Not-So-Happy Anniversary | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

If the Soviets are not about to recognize the success of any American doctrine, they do admit, at least tacitly, the failure of any number of doctrines from their own Communist past: Karl Marx's world revolution, Vladimir Lenin's "proletarian internationalism," Nikita Khrushchev's sponsorship of "wars of national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Credit Where Credit Is Due | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

The trouble for "Red Harry," as the right-wing press dubs him, is that he is not really in charge. His phone is being tapped. The CIA has infiltrated his Cabinet. His own intelligence chief is ferreting out scandals, real and invented, in an effort to bring down his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Red Harry's Revolution | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

The old moguls hated movies where people wore powdered wigs and wrote with feathers. So this film's first images should set the old bosses spinning in their mausoleums. A gentleman's peruke is affixed, a lady's bosom powdered. But this gentleman, the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich), is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lust Is a Thing with Feathers | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps the most damning indictment of the Soviet economy was published late last month by economist Alexander Zaychenko in the monthly journal of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies. He charged that Soviet food products, housing, health care and consumer goods are not only poor in quality but also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Why the Bear's Cupboards Are Bare | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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