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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero remains high. Most of the participants consider Iranscam a murky irrelevancy, a distraction from their agenda of a still stronger defense, a reduced government, a return to the "moral values" of yesteryear. When Reagan told the group he was no lame duck but was "saving his best stuff for the last act," some listeners shouted, "Four more years! Four more years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tacking Further to the Right | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...standard of much current fiction, these events sound like small potatoes indeed, stuff to get out of the way before the corporate takeover or the bedroom marathon. But Naipaul manages to give each isolated incident the ! inevitability and gravity of history. The impression is not that so little happens in ten years but that a series of small upheavals so shake a tiny, isolated corner of the world. Having found, after some 40 years of struggle, his ideal landscape, Naipaul must watch its deterioration and decline. He can, within reason, be philosophical about this process, acknowledging that his sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Gift of a Second Life THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

More than 150 Harvard performers, ranging from dancers to a rock band, will strut their stuff for charity tonight in the fourth annual Jazz for Life concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Concert Expected to Draw 1200 | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

This is far from his best stuff. But Maher was so funny and on target--and in such complete control of the audience--that I was laughing too often and too hard to jot down most of his killer material. Many of his other memorable bits were dirty enough so as not to be publishable, though far from dirty enough to be offensive...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Square Life: | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...takes from previous albums, such material is prized by fans but often reveals the most tenuous and potentially embarassing moments--as happened to the mighty Led Zeppelin with the appearance of Coda. Having formulated this general law, let me announce that Invisible Hitchcock, a compilation of previously unreleased stuff from British popster Robyn Hitchcock, is the exception to the rule...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: VINYL | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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