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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image of a strong woman involved in confused love dominates the album. Etheridge's lyrics, however, more or less succeed in skirting the rocks of love cliches, and she hits home with lines like "Am I the snake inside your garden, the sugar in your tea, the knock upon your backdoor, the twist that turns your...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Love's Labor Won | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

...earliest memories, the faraway land where children were starving (or so our parents told us when we were young), so we had better finish our dinners. The place we could reach by digging deep in our sandboxes; a measure of size ("I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China"); a country whose mere name conjured mystery and intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...down, says the voice of reason. Have a nice cup of decaf tea. Try to remember that a car is not a puppy. True, the dreamer muses, but if adult automobiles bred and had young, the result might be a Miata: short nosed, rounded and soft looking; mischievous, with a funny, not quite serious growl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Miatific Bliss in Five Gears | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Phnom Penh's defense minister, Gen. Tea Banh, has acknowledged the guerrillas have seized teritory near Pailin, but said the area remained under government control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanoi Pulls Last Troops From Cambodia | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

Mikhail Gorbachev needs this ruckus about as much as Custer needed more Indians. The Soviet President is already trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Look Who's Feeling Picked On | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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