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...perestroika, there was, it seems, Captain Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, commander of the Soviet Typhoon-class submarine Red October. Since he is played by the estimable Sean Connery in this movie version of Tom Clancy's hurricane-class best seller, you know he can't be a hard-liner -- a stern-liner, maybe, but never a hard-liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A High-Stakes Blindman's Buff | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Huskies pulled out to an early lead, but Radcliffe's JV worked their way through them over the 2000-meters, pounding to a bow-to-stern victory of about five seconds...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Oarswomen Overcome Pesky Northeastern | 3/4/1990 | See Source »

...empire that Toronto developer Robert Campeau assembled in the '80s was placed under the protection of federal bankruptcy court. A hard-driving raider, Campeau had used junk bonds to help finance the $10.2 billion he paid for Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, whose ten chains include Bloomingdale's, Stern's and Jordan Marsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...tourist capitals of Europe. And is anyone in a hurry to see a 2-hr. 22-min. film in Romany with English subtitles? As it happens, the movie does take time for side trips from Yugoslavia to Italy, to show young Gypsies stealing and pimping at their bosses' stern whims. But its heart is in a Serbian village of Gypsies, where outcasts find a family and fevered dreams are as tangible and intimate as a relative come to sleep in the crowded shack called home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A People Cursed with Magic | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Behind the stern talk, antiapartheid leaders conceded they were searching for compromises that could get them to the conference table. De Klerk has kept the final ace, the release of Mandela, in his hand, and when he plays it, the antiapartheid movement will feel heavy pressure to sit down and talk. The question then will be whether any solution acceptable to both the black majority and the white minority is negotiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa At Least Half a Loaf | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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