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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...internal combustion engine, and as a result lead lives that seem to the frantic urban outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That is precisely what a young widow named Rachel (the glowing Kelly McGillis) and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas) discover when they go to visit her sister. For during a layover in Philadelphia, the little boy visits the men's room in the railroad station and witnesses a brutal murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Afterimages Witness | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...oldest of six brothers and one sister, Anderson grows rice on 1,800 acres in Wharton and Colorado counties. That makes him a big operator, but he has had to retrench. He dropped the lease on 2,200 acres he was renting because "I was losing money on it." Anderson has let some of his field hands go, but wants to keep on a nucleus in case things get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinging to the Land | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...fittest as you battle the real owner when he shown up. There is at good chance you'll be higher up on the evolutionary scale as many tock concert patrons lack opposable thumbs Of course your chances with this method are better at either Judas Priest on Twisted Sister shows...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: The Rock Concert Blues | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

...raise her in a grand Virginia house, have both died. Then her father is killed in a car accident. Justin's mother must transplant her and her younger brother to a village in upstate New York, to the tidy, stultifying suburban home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory. On one such foray, she discovers a tumbledown hut by the side of a pond and decides to investigate. When she sees a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deliberate Speed, Stunning Effect the Finishing School | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Some Catholic women have responded by organizing religious ceremonies of their own. In an apartment 88 floors above Lake Michigan, 13 women in slacks and sweaters sat in a circle last week and sang, "Lean on me, I am your sister." They read the passage from Luke in which a group of women told the Apostles that Christ had risen, and the Apostles did not believe them. Then, although the women do not regard such ceremonies as Eucharists, they passed a loaf of French bread and two pottery mugs of wine. "We share this wine now," one of them prayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women: Second-Class Citizens? | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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