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...were honorable. Some say that he traded for fame with the gods, exchanging a brief life for a long thereafter. Hamlet tells Horatio that Alexander's fame came to nothing: "To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he finds it stopping a bunghole?" Still, his fame has come this far. His tomb was on display for 700 years and he is not through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alexander Takes Washington | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Durst recalls the vivid joy of last year's upset. "Once you've tasted a little bit, it's awful tough not to want to taste it again. All I can remember is all of us saying, 'We can't wait till next year.' Next year is here, and it comes down to this for the title." Knowing Chuck Durst, that is the Difference...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Captain Chuck Durst | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...only ones buying guns. Americans believe blissfully that political violence is impossible here, overlooking the wave of bombings that rocked this country in the late 1960s. Backed to the wall by a rock-ribbed government looking to exorcise the Bolsheviki, the trouble will begin with bombs and escalate till it reaches Jamaican proportions. Where it might as well end, for when America bleeds, the left will not fare well. Who, after all, stands by the right to bear arms, besides the Right who bear arms...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...wind"), Janis Joplin ("Down on me, down on me/ Looks like everybody in this whole round world/ Is down on me"), Timothy Leary ("Turn on, tune in, drop out"), Wladziu Valentino Liberace ("I cried all the way to the bank"), Yogi Berra (";The game isn't over till it's over") and Woody Allen ("Play It Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Updating John's Sockdolager | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...Murphy didn't look bad till the last 1-3/4 mile," McCurdy said. "I've never seen Murph look so tired and pale as he did with half-a-mile to go--and that was when he started to make his move...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: When the Going Gets Impossible... | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

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