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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of social, medical and legal policies specifically designed to liberate patients from forced confinement. The development of effective drugs prompted states to begin the wholesale release of patients from hospitals. At the same time patient advocacy movements, citing stories of people left to languish for years in "snake pits," established an individual's right to refuse involuntary commitment or treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madman on the Ferry | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Given the timing, Reagan's remarks on hunger sounded a bit Scrooge-like. In a last-minute effort to dispel that image, the President belatedly decided to allow the human chain to snake through the White House grounds and to join in himself. "This house," said Reagan, "belongs to all the people and is a symbol of the American dream." But for obvious security reasons, not "all the people" will be permitted in the White House segment of the line--only Secret Service agents, White House personnel and families and accredited journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lending a Helping Hand | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...author may realize what a jerk Fielding Pierce really is, but it is difficult to tell, since the snake has all the lines. Further muddying the issue of whether a character like this should be a Congressman is the reappearance of Sarah Williams, who, dead or alive, certainly comes to haunt the candidate. Spencer, 40, struggles with an ambitious question: How can people work for good in a world of evil? Unfortunately, with friends like Fielding and Sarah, the causes of righteousness and coherent narratives seem curiously irrelevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambitions Waking the Dead | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...enticement and desire. Though Jack comes to the rescue, and Lili comes to her senses, their victory rings hollow. For the erotic legend that brings Legend alive is older than King Arthur, let alone Luke Skywalker. It is as old as the Eve in every woman and the snake in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures At an Exhibition Legend | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...Saudis are placing their hopes for industrial growth in showcase projects like Jubail, a $20 billion new city that rises like a shimmering mirage above the turquoise waters of the gulf. Mile after mile of silver pipes snake across the sands at Jubail, and block after block of beige-colored bungalows fill its residential sector. From Jubail's plants come chemicals and fertilizers as well as iron, aluminum and steel. Planners expect the community to grow from the 30,000 residential workers it now houses to 300,000 by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia Facing a Double-Barreled Gun | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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