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To the Shi'at Ali, who later became known as Shi'ites, Hussein's tragic attempt to establish the Prophet's true succession was the supreme sacrifice for the faith. Martyrdom thus offers Shi'ites a chance to imitate their sainted hero. In Iran, which is more than 90% Shi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unending Feud: Shi'ites vs. Sunnis | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

From his first eminence in the early '50s as the rage of syndicated TV, Liberace was a vision out of a closet yet to be opened in mainstream show business. The silken singsong voice, the candelabrum, the welded dimples and fluty presence, the references to his sainted mother Frances, all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberace: The Evangelist of Kitsch | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Ralph: Harsh words, Wanda. Have I ever uttered a single word against the sainted cause of the revolution?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Again to High Fidelity | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

No wonder he proved such a success when his daddy brought him into the family business: skewering the town's most powerful men out of millions while he was seducing their wives. All in all, a cause for celebration. Then why, he wondered as he started to slide from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

"If the masses feel some anger, we I must let them express it." With I those words, spoken to a visiting Japanese politician, China's diminutive Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing put an official stamp of approval on the extraordinary eruption of political expression that had gripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peking's Poster Politics | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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