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...just getting rougher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests New Generation in the Streets | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Colby played a rougher game than the Crimson, registering seven penalties to Harvard...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: Icewomen Swipe Two in Maine | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...saxophones and synthesizers. But, as David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar to mainstream audiences from the Talking Heads, but with a rougher, anarchic bite. Indeed, the album is a Who's Who of the downtown crowd: one song, The Day the Devil Comes to Getcha, has words by Laurie Anderson, and supporting musicians include Percussionist David Van Tieghem. Innocent is a walk on the wild Lower East Side, a long way from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Once Upon a Time in America | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...rivals. Although each had hoped to emerge victorious from the seven-way primary held last week for the Democratic nomination in Georgia's Fifth District, neither cornered a majority of the votes. The two men will now meet head on in a three-week campaign that promises to be rougher than the first round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Mixed Results in Georgia | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...major irony of the telephone balloting is that resolving the equal- access issue is liable to make business even rougher for AT&T's competitors. | That is because of the fees called access charges that carriers pay to the Baby Bells, whose equipment connects consumer phones to a long- distance carrier. For AT&T's rivals, these fees are rising fast, and will probably grow even faster to pay for the new equal-access connection. In many cases, access fees have jumped from about 10% of long-distance retailer revenues two years ago to more than 50% today. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratifying a Winner in the Phone Vote | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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