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Mikhail Gorbachev stepped from his gleaming white Ilyushin 62 jet at Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, his lips tightened almost to a grimace. Overhead, staring down from the roof of the terminal building, were two giant portraits, one of Gorbachev, the other of his host, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Friends Like These . . . | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

But these days the eyes water like a weak opinion, and the skin on her hand < feels like pie dough rolled on an enamel tabletop. (Let me give you a hand, Mom.) A Whistler pose, she is content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Aged Mother | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Bird watching. Noun (archaic). A form of harmless staring, conducted in woody areas, by genial eccentrics often named Matilda or Chauncey.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: All That Jizz | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Saturday night on Bourbon Street, after the Indiana-UNLV game. Indiana won, and ten thousand delirious fraternity boys in red T shirts were in the street, drinking heavily. Here and where we saw more subdued though equally dipsomaniac Runnin' Rebel fans, but the evening was for crewcut Hoosiers from the...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: A Sinking Feeling | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

"This year the federal government will not collect $110 billion in taxes owned that aren't being paid," he said. "In short, with $200 billion budget deficits staring us in the face, we have been looking the other way while one out of every five Americans has failed to pay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis: U.S. Must Cut Deficit | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

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