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...hurrah. Its gymnasts occupied four of the top five spots, and its sixth gymnast beat the best performer from the U.S. team. In a sport where differences are measured in thousandths of a point, the Unified Team twisted and spun to gold with more than five full points to spare over China and Japan. Coming a night after the women's tense team competition, the exuberance of the men's unified effort was a welcome relief. Teammates cheered and hugged and seemed to revel in the triumph of Vitali Scherbo, 20, who took top marks in three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gymnastics Ode to Joylessness | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications installation built during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure is now outdated and inoperative, according to Igor Malashenko, deputy director of state television and radio. "Because we don't need it anymore, it's been slowly stripped of spare parts," he says. A similar fate befell many of the tens of thousands of civilian bomb shelters built as part of the massive Soviet civil defense program. At a shelter 40 ft. below the main building of Moscow State University, water has flooded some of the rooms, and thieves have stripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Secret Plans | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...direct-mail campaign and broadcast advertising. But Perot's two longtime business associates, Tom Luce and Morton Meyerson, decided that it would be prudent if they, rather than Rollins and Jordan, presented the spending plan to Perot. Luce feared a volcanic reaction from the boss and wanted to spare the new recruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot Takes a Walk | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

Stanley L. Donald, the sales coordinator for Spare Change, a newspaper published by Boston-area homeless people, will be helping with the campaign in Cambridge. Donald said he hopes that weekly movies, as well as coffee and doughnuts, will attract people to a voter registration table he plans to set up on MIT property...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campaign Targets Homeless | 7/21/1992 | See Source »

...Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry's Game, Clannad goes spare and liturgical, transmuting New Age tonal banality into ageless, ethereal beauty. If you ever ascend to heaven, this is the music you'll hear in the elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 6, 1992 | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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