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Ten years of news clips and sound bites strung together in barely cohesive fashion. Cut from the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team's "miracle on ice" to a shot of Madonna's "Material Girl" video. Then Ivan Boesky and Michael Miliken. Then pan to a lone Chinese demonstrator staring down an...

Author: By Kristine M. Zaleskas, | Title: The Real People of the Decade | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

The town they are terrorizing holds a meeting to name their antagonists, decides "graboids" will do nicely and starts dithering over defensive strategies. Perfection, Nev., by this time has a total population of nine, not counting the plucky visiting geologist (Finn Carter), but it has all the social stratums a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

And for all those staring into an empty January evening, this is the kind of good basic movie everyone hopes is lurking out there and rarely is. Shrewdly, unpretentiously written, energetically directed and played with high comic conviction, Tremors is bound to become a cult classic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

One participant who welcomes Ulam's heightened status is his widow, Francoise Ulam, who will never forget the day she returned home for lunch to find her husband staring fixedly out the window. "I think I've found the way to make it work," he told her. "Make what work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: The Master Spy Who Failed | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

When George Bush took office about a year ago, he could look around at a tidy club of democratic, market-oriented friends staring across a wall at a bunch of backyard bullies. The wall fell down, the bullies were chased off, and now everybody wants into George's club.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Freedom's Multi-Ring Circus | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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