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...trademark smile as he told reporters after the trial, "I come out today still innocent of the charges against me . . . My faith is still in God." Wife Tammy Faye tried to put the best face on the situation by singing a hymn and cooing, "It's not over till it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Judgment Day | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...since coal is very expensive. Besides, Bi is saving for new eyeglasses. He hates his thick lenses and believes he would not need them if he had grown up in the West. "Until about five years ago, we didn't have electricity," he says. "I read by candlelight till then. My eyes had gone to hell by the time I was eight...

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

Spence's only previous administrativeexperience had been as chair of the EconomicsDepartment from 1983 till he became dean, and hehad not made a name for himself in that capacity,professors...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Five Years Of Spence: Technocrat Or Visionary? | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

When it comes to getting and staying wet, there are still, of course, plenty of purists who have no use for oversize whirlpool baths and plastic logs. "You never swam till ya swam in a quarry," declares Marilyn Woodruff, owner for the past 22 years of Clearwater Quarry near Toledo. Abandoned as a limestone mine around the turn of the century, Clearwater soaks almost two acres, roughly 30 ft. deep. At nearby Salisbury Quarry, 65 ft. at its deepest, half the swimmers are scuba divers. They come to rummage around the sunken hulks -- eight fishing trawlers, as well as buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Come On In, The Water's Fine! | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...York magazine charged that Lee's film could undermine the New York City mayoral campaign of a black candidate. Everywhere, the film has polarized white liberals for whom Bed-Stuy is as exotic and unknowable as Burkina Faso. Some see Lee as the movies' great black hope; others tut till they're tuckered. A few fear that Do the Right Thing could trigger the kind of riot it dramatizes and perhaps condones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hot Time in Bed-Stuy Tonight | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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