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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ethical posturing is fast becoming the Washington version of the old radio show Can You Top This? Tower, of course, was a major contributor to the piety on parade with his melodramatic vow that he would resign as Defense Secretary if a drop of liquor ever touched his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing The Line | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For Broke at Eastern | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling the truth. But his viewers know; Gilliam has used the magic of film to show them the wonders Munchausen has limned. Lovers dance in midair in an underworld waterfall ballroom. The baron sails to the moon in a ship wafted by a hot-air balloon. One of his servants (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet. A terrifying angel of death hovers over the baron, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lying with A Straight Face | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...safety of U.S. jetliners. Even though the rate of airline fatalities has declined in the decade since deregulation, the U.S. airline industry has flown its jets into uncharted territory during that time. U.S. carriers have pushed their fleets longer and harder than ever, and the strains have begun to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tarnished Wings | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...daily readers with the Times. Nonetheless, Kalikow is confident that many Times readers will also pick up the Sunday Post and that he can wrest others away from the Daily News. Projecting a 35% to 40% increase in revenue, Kalikow predicts that the Sunday edition will help the Post show a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Last Stand of the Tabloids | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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