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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morning Star community, "Theresa and Larry Jackson just returned from a Bahamian cruise they won playing Chevrolet bingo. The cruise lasted five days." In Pindall, "Edith Vaughn has a new roof and two porches over her trailer house. It looks good." In Oxley, "Mr. and Mrs. Junior Harness took two loads of pigs to Thayer, Mo., last week. They were nice pigs." In the classifieds: "If your cows could talk, they would say buy a registered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...team has a 20-year lease agreement to play in the newly built, seven-acre, 61,000-seat stadium known as Hoosier Dome. The $78 million complex is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, its white-fabric, air-supported, 257-ton roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India-no-place No More | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Rauch: The HRDC open book had a note in it the other day asking why we keep doing experimental crap, why don't we ever do Company or Fiddler on the Roof? What they don't realize is that those shows were incredibly innovative once. I don't want to cling to the innovations of the past; why museumize? It's perfectly fine to do, but it's not the same kind of risk-taking...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The two masks of Harvard drama | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...from them, this describes virtually every moment of life in Lionel, from talking politics to arguing over which channel to watch. And at the very least, the legacy of Lionel is having spent a year living with 18 of the most diverse people ever to live under a dorm roof. "When I run into anyone from Lionel, even though they may have changed, I still feel I can have a real conversation with them," Mary says. "I know more than just their face--I feel I know them. "It was Harvard at a dangerous voltage, good while it lasted...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Luis C. Silva, S | Title: Too close for comfort | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...victims were Roman Catholic nuns. The provincial courtroom had a musky, Gabriel Garcia Márquez air. Through swinging saloon doors came and went a family selling sandwiches and coffee to spectators. A group of onlookers stood tiptoe on a junked car just outside-until the rotted car roof gave way. The crowd laughed; when the verdict came at 4 a.m., a man from the U.S. embassy cried happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salvador's Supersalesman | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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