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...would have been unheard of 20 years ago for people [in America] to be concerned about the Amazon River Basin," says Wilson, "Now, it regularly makes the cover of Newsweek and Time magazine...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: In Earth Day's Wake... | 4/26/1990 | See Source »

...voices being heard today at Harvard do not properly represent the many individual opinions and ideas in the University community. One segment of voices cries out unheard. AALARM's purpose is to amplify these voices. We will be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Shows Pro-Gay Bias | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...been preserved on nearly 120 player-piano rolls that he cut between 1916 and 1926. These virtuoso piano solos were never transcribed into sheet music, however. Since the demise of the player piano, the fragile paper rolls that hold the solos have been deteriorating on private collectors' shelves, unheard by generations of Gershwin scholars and fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Play It Again, George | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...Unheard of. Milli Vanilli, a dance-music duo that sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks and speaks English like the two Teutonic muscleheads on Saturday Night Live, has done something boggling. The group, scorned by critics and adored by clubgoers and devotees of MTV, has scored three No. 1 singles off its debut album, Girl You Know It's True. It has also sold 10 million copies worldwide (7 million in the U.S.), put together a video compilation of its greatest hits that sold 100,000 copies in a month, and copped three American Music Awards in January. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Scoops of Vanilli | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...those astonishing ironies of history, many have invested their hopes in Nelson Mandela, the aged black revolutionary now endowed with almost mythic stature. Imprisoned for life for sedition, unseen and largely unheard from for more than 27 years, he is somehow expected to lead South Africa to salvation. But can any man perform that miracle? Is South Africa really ready to be led out of the wilderness of apartheid into the promised land of . . . of what? The black dream of a nonracial democratic society -- in short, black rule? Or something less, a revision of the old system in which white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: At the Crossroads | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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