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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really insensitive or racist to call the 1950s "carefree" times? Compared to the 1940s--which brought us Hitler, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb--the 1950s might seem carefree. Next to the 1960s and 1970s--which gave us race riots, Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that decade might seem like "Happy Days." But the truth is, no decade can fairly be termed "carefree...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: In Defense of the Fifties | 2/8/1989 | See Source »

DeVore said he was "terribly sorry" for those excluded from the course. "I had to be callous, but there didn't seem to be an alternative," he said...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Lottery for Core Course Denies `Sex' to Juniors | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...resent that, and maybe I will then go after them. But if you come on and are polite and well groomed and behave yourself, then you've got nothing to worry about. I'm stunned at the number of people in show business who come on and don't seem to get that what we want from them is a performance, you know, tell us three stories out of your life. Anybody who has been on this planet 20 years and doesn't have three stories, well, they should re-examine what they're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...spiritual concerns and power politics may seem paradoxical, yet the distinctive pressures of Washington life seem to be the driving force behind the prayer networks. "In this city, it is very rare to find friendships for friendship's sake," explains Senate chaplain Richard Halverson. "I think it is an expression of the need to share and express feelings with people you can trust." Besides providing a support group where people can pray together and confide personal problems, these weekly gatherings usually focus on Bible studies. "Calling yourself a Christian without reading the Bible is like calling yourself an engineer without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inside The Bible Beltway | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...tight, enameled technique could make any vision, no matter how outrageous, seem persuasively real. It fitted the central claim of surrealism that dreams were superior facts, the incarnation of desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salvadore Dali,The Embarrassing Genius | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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