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She is as old as the century, but she keeps up with it just fine. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, far and away Britain's favorite royal, carries out a daunting round of official duties, and just because she turned 86 last week was no reason for slowing down: two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1986 | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Suddenly, from somewhere behind me, I heard a crash, the f-word, and something shattering. By the time I turned around, macaroni and cheese, soggy beans and syrupy sliced peaches were swimming across the floor. And some woman I had never seen before was entering terminal embarrassment.

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Four Years Later | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

NEXT ARE STUDY breaks. The first one is for David Letterman--a man with just the "Far Side" mentality the Allnightist possesses, or soon will. Later, when slap-happy turns into bitterness at the sleeping, a quick water-gun, water-balloon raid on Store 24 is in order. Nothing lightens...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

At times, the war appears to be waged with hydraulics rather than firepower. The Iranians flood the low areas to bog down Iraqi tanks and heavy equipment. The Iraqis use earthmoving vehicles and hundreds of dump trucks to fill in the soggy earth. Despite sustained Iraqi artillery barrages, the Iranians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Standoff in a Wasteland | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

The title alone is provocative: Soap-Powders and Detergents. Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Seattle's Young Spellbinder | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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