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...Michael became legal counsel to the city of Atlanta, flirted with local politics, got out without losing his shirt. Elizabeth gave lectures on her culinary findings and in 1977 opened a little deli, Thyme for You, in a shopping mall. Her homemade soups and sandwiches were a smash. She made "20 grand real quick," and then "all of a sudden it occurred to me: This is me! This is it!" It lasted two years, until the wine-and-cheese shop from which she rented space closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Savannah: Cooking on the Front Burner | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

What makes Joe and the ISO so upset about the Trotskyist SYL? Is it that we Marxists who defend for the Soviet Union stand for the defense of the unions, for the defense of Blacks against race terror and for workers revolution to smash capitalism? Menn is very explicit: "Sisyphist slogans like: 'Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!' 'Vietnam Was a Victory!!' 'Defend the Deformed Workers State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!''' It should be made clear that we adamantly oppose state persecution of citizens for purely ideological "crimes." But Soviet traitors like the Sakharovs, who give concrete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...operated by its third generation of Hassenfeld brothers, has profited from a somewhat contrary attitude. The company avoided getting into video games in 1979, which at the time prompted wags to call it "Has-been." Instead, the company plunged / deeper into conventional toys, which eventually produced such smash hits as Transformers and My Little Pony, a line of plastic, pastel-colored toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...whereby cumulative reforms within the legal system, such as fighting for the rights of a minority group in a court case, are supposed to change society for the better. On the other hand, CLS does not strike like a band of intellectual terrorists from the fringes of society to smash legal and cultural icons. It tries to use two apparently contradictory strategies at the same time: fighting for someone's rights while fighting against the notion of property rights that is the basis of our legal system...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Family Feud or Realpolitik? | 11/26/1985 | See Source »

...album is a financial smash for its label, MCA Records, which produced the record for just $200,000, compared with $750,000 for a typical movie sound track. Such stars as Phil Collins and Tina Turner, who contributed songs, accepted lower-than-usual fees in order to meet the budget. The record's success has inspired MCA Records to consider a sequel. Meanwhile, fans of the palmy program will not run out of music. The show's stars, Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson, are each working on a solo album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Getting the Drop on Cop Pop | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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