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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some of the tunes are a bit florid, but the best (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 13, 1989 | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...group themselves in cliques. This is especially obvious at the Union, where the long tables are lined with groups of Blacks, Asians or Chicanos. Of course, there are perfectly good reasons why minority students who share a common cultural bond form support groups, either informally or through the various minority organizations on campus...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: Minority Group Self-Segregation | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...perhaps the most visible aspect of the campaign against the budget cuts has been the construction of a shantytown on campus by various student groups, including Students for a Democratic University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposed Budget Cuts Cause Dissent | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report. Not Allison; she said she had no problems, with or without oxygen. And clearly this is true; at the summit, which she reached without trouble, she spent 45 minutes waiting for her Sherpa and photographing herself with the logos of various corporate sponsors. Then she made an unbelievable descent all the way to Camp 1, at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...destinies, bring down upon themselves the justice they deserve. In this case, however, the justice could hardly be described as poetic. Both sides have, in a sense, got exactly what they wanted -- only to find that perhaps they should not have wanted it after all. In banning the book, various wise bodies have ignored the truth that every parent knows: a prohibition is often an invitation in disguise. And in making his Valentine's Day call for massacre, Khomeini seems to have gone beyond overkill to hubris: unlike, say, the Christians who opposed The Last Temptation of Christ, he appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Prosaic Justice All Around | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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