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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best suited to a low key bass accompaniment. But this backing band's overblown sound could have been straight out of Blues Brothers soundtrack, with lead guitar from Spinal Tap. Perhaps the most spontaneous moment came when the backing guitarist announced that the videos would be on sale after the show, and the Buddha put on his black spaceman glasses to rousing applause...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Reviving the Buddha | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah's secret police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Many Talents | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Inouye heads the Senate committee that, alongwith a companion House committee, will open publichearings today into the secret sale of U.S. armsto Iran and diversion of payments to Nicaraguanrebels. The complicated case has turned into theworst crisis of Reagan's presidency...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: President 'Aware' That Money Went For Contra Arms | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...local officials, however, are having trouble adjusting to the changes. The law is fuzzy on procedures and powers for local bureaucrats, who are finding ways to block the reform. In Moscow, for example, a commission has been appointed to judge the artistic and moral merit of handicrafts proposed for sale. A young Moscow mother of two who paints churches on wooden eggs was turned down because her wares were "of a religious nature." A jeweler's products were rejected because the work, although it sells briskly, was deemed "ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Inching Down the Capitalist Road | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Grammophon, RCA, CBS, London, Philips, L'Oiseau-Lyre and Angel are among the labels whose main line recordings you can trust for sound and disc quality. You should expect to pay in the neighborhood of $8 for a top-quality main line record or tape that is not on sale...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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