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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as Harvard police refuse to be provoked by student protests, the protesters will never succeed in gaining the national attention and student popularity necessary for the success of their movements...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Green Men-in-Blue | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...party strategists have watched the elections "close up," they have started hedging their earlier confident predictions. Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman warned against complacent optimism, harking back to 1982, when "Republican money pulled the rug of success from under us." Said a G.O.P. honcho: "For us to hold on in the Senate, everything has to break perfectly in a lot of states." He added soberly, "I've never seen a midterm election in which everything breaks perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Windup Fight to the Finish | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Cambridge (the British playwright's alma mater) who become intimates while putting out a literary magazine. Most of the story is their post-Cambridge life: two remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung to the ideals of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Clinging to the Ideals of Youth the Common Pursuit by Simon Gray | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Even in Spain, true flamenco appeals mostly to aficionados, and although Flamenco Puro was a success in both Seville and Paris, Orezzoli is nervous about its future in America. "This show must attract a public that is still not formed," he says. "When you hear tango, it can awake something that is familiar. It is urban folklore. But flamenco puts you in a different world. People who expect castanets might be disappointed." If first-week audiences are any indication, however, they will not be, and word of mouth is already causing a toe-tapping, heel-stamping queue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Flamenco, Simple and Smashing | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

There was Boggs, the epitome of individual success, saturating a towel on national television because of his team's failure. At last, something I could identify with. Seven figure salaries mean nothing to me. Complaining about playing time is tiring. Snorting cocaine between games of a double header is repulsive. But tears...that brings back the memories...

Author: By Andrew J. Sussman, | Title: Thanks for the Memories | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

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