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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps, the dark age is too positive. Perhaps, we're in the great abyss. The wastelands of baseball surround us on every side and attack us at all corners. Sure, April's a cruel month, but what about the rest of spring and summer. Just ask anyone who follows the Yankees...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Baseball Goes Home Again | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...craze, and one that comes as somewhat of a surprise out on the street. Although couturiers like Yves Saint Laurent have used animal prints for years in subtle and expensive ways, jungle patterns, with their hint of sensual mystery and animal sexuality, have mostly been associated with the showier side of show biz; the imitable Zsa Zsa, for example, recently turned up in a Beverly Hills courtroom wearing a vast spotted-print number. To be sure, it has always been O.K. for mainstream dreamers to be tigresses in private: catty underwear remains a steady seller. Now, after a drab decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: On The Prowl with Vulgar Chic | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Breites had to abandon the car and ford a river under cover of darkness. Sympathetic Czechs led them to a spot on the Ipoly, a shallow Danube tributary, where other East Germans were making the same trek. Olaf carried two children across; Marlies toted the third. On the Hungarian side, their luck held. Though it was 3:30 a.m., a bus happened by. "There were other refugees inside," Marlies recalls. "And we kept picking up people all along the route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seizing The Moment | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Braden Tennis College in Coto de Caza, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, a few dozen students are watching a most peculiar exhibition. At one end of a tennis court, a ball machine flings one ball after another across the net. Seated on a chair on the opposite side, a short, chubby man, racquet in hand, rises to meet each one, hitting it squarely with a looping forehand. Thwack. Thwack. The balls whiz back over the net, landing just inside the base line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...clampdown could create conflict between automakers and the oil industry, as each side seeks to pass responsibility for meeting the standards on to the other. "The carmakers want to say 'reformulate the gasoline,' " says William Randol, an oil-industry analyst for First Boston. "But who will make the investment to do this?" He noted that Shell Oil has estimated that it would cost billions of dollars to develop new clean-burning gasolines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yearning To Breathe Free | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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