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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert stages. A second generation is starting to catch the beat of the music their parents grew up with, the music that, very often, helped their parents grow up. If all that is a little disorienting, or even baffling, remember the words of the classic R.-and-B. tune: "The little girls understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do You Wanna Dirty Dance? | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...apparently, does Raisa Gorbachev. For all the difference between her glamorous life-style and the drudgery endured by most Soviet women, the First Lady expresses attitudes that reflect popular aspirations. In a letter to TIME, she strikes a series of chords that show her to be in tune with her female compatriots. Selflessness. Self-sacrifice. Keepers of the hearth and home. From such broad themes, it is only a small step to the primary preoccupation: coping with life as it is, rather than dreaming how it might be. What does a woman want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroines Of Soviet Labor | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...into the next. When the teeterboarders have finished (for some marvelously zany reason, they appear as penguins carrying briefcases), their boards must be danced lightly out of the ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger girl how to do a handstand on the balance point of a teeterboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pree-Senn-Ting The Circus of the Sun | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

With strong winds blowing and familiarity with its courts, B.C. gave the nation's 25th-ranked Crimson a good tune-up for its Ivy showdown with Dartmouth today...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Cruise Past B.C. | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

...long time, the war on drugs was Jesse Jackson's signature tune, his issue. Fifteen years ago, Jackson was decrying drugs as America's public enemy No. 1. The drug issue is -- and has been -- the strongest, the most reassuring, the most universally appealing part of his populist message, the theme that seems to take some of the sting out of his radicalism. He speaks more convincingly, more plainly about drugs than about any other subject. No other candidate comes close to the reaction Jackson gets when he calls out "Down with dope. Up with hope." None can match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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