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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing of John Kennedy's assassination in his book, Why we Can't Wait, King said, "We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Very Much Alive | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...Dallas suburb on the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The coincidence of dates sends Home Front aloft toward political metaphor. Dad may be every "reasonable" statesman who led the U.S. deeper into Viet Nam; Mom and Sis could be every uncommitted American woman, worried sick about her boy or her beau, but hoping against all evidence for the best. And Jeremy may not be kidding when he says that in Viet Nam "I died." Alive or dead, he is the twisted ghost of every Camelot ideal. This good boy went off to war; now he has returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Ghost Sonata in Sitcom Land Home Front | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Heavyweight crew coach Lisa H. Stone echoes Scalise saying, "Crew might be a stressful enough sport that those who have eating disorders would be sick too much of the time...

Author: By Emily J.M. Knowlton, | Title: Women's Teams Combat 'Less is More' Attitudes | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...present. When the poor donate to the rich, the social order begins to tremble. The powerful man feels humiliated, and the carpenter gets drunk, confused and boisterous: "We have to make a lot of things to sell to the rich before they die. All of them are sick, and they're going to die. They're so screwed up they can't even get angry any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Fabulous World | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...proved. Said Belli: "It doesn't matter that you didn't intend to bring harm. What matters is that it happened. In this Bhopal case we can damn well prove that it happened." His plan: "We'll have videotape of all those poor bastards who are sick and dying. We will have a brochure on every single person who was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Ambulance Chase | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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