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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I was four or five, I used to tell everyone I was adopted," recalls Karla Kelba, 16, a blond, cheery high school junior from Fountain Valley, Calif. "I thought it was very special; the kids thought it was great. But between ten and 13, I went through some rough times. The kids wouldn't play with me. They said my mother didn't want me." There was worse to come. In a health and sex-education class, "my teacher went all off on the subject of how adopted kids are second choice," she recalls angrily. "He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: The Baby Chase | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Other notable songs include "Brave and Crazy," which mixes a funky bass beat with rough, pleading vocals and "You Can Sleep While I Drive." a ballad not unlike Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car." In "Skin Deep." a savage song about superficial love. Etheridge proves that no one can sing "baby" quite like...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Love's Labor Won | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

SINCE its inception, the plan has encountered bitter opposition from almost everyone with an interest in the fate of the Gulf site. The University has run rough-shod over the wishes of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Disturbing Decision | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...PREPPIE MURDER (ABC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). The tabloid shows had a field day with it. Now the case of Jennifer Levin -- the New York City teenager killed during a session of "rough sex" in Central Park -- is rehashed as a TV movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 25, 1989 | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this British group started up in the late '60s, their music was called "folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but the band's music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional melody -- is as splendid and mysterious as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 18, 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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