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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those five barriers must be overcome before the political system reacts. The role of leadership is critical in spreading awareness, in framing solutions, in offering a vision of the future we want to create, as well as a vision of the nightmare we wish to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: What Is Wrong With Us? | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...vehicle he chose was Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending, a nightmare vision of the playwright's native South. Its Grand Guignol events -- religious hysteria, racial confrontation, abusive law enforcement, Klan night-riding and a climactic murder by blowtorch -- seemed at the 1957 debut to arise from Williams' inner demons. Three decades of civil rights struggle compelled a whole nation to see those demons as its own. Yet if the descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Realm of Inspired Ritual | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...more privileged, those scenes look like a science-fiction vision of civilization's breakdown, perhaps after a nuclear war. In fact, Mexico City has been described as the anteroom to an ecological Hiroshima. With 20 million residents -- up from 9 million only 20 years ago -- the Mexican capital is considered the most populous urban center on earth. Mexico City has been struck not by military weapons but by a population bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Overpopulation Too Many Mouths | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...Mountains of northwest Soviet Armenia. But by last week it had become an international symbol of death and utter destruction, a place where the stench of corpses mingled with fading, desperate hopes that a voice, a whimper or a sigh might be heard from deep beneath the rubble. "A vision of horror," gasped a stunned Dr. Patrick Aeberhard, president of the French humanitarian aid group Medecins du Monde. An estimated 70% of the town's 20,000 population lies entombed, victims of the devastating earthquake that hit two weeks ago. Throughout the region, at least 50,000 are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Vision of Horror | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...never really stopped being professorial. As he sees it, the unexamined life is not worth loving: "The moons of Saturn, the Bard of Avon, the mysteries of sex, the behavior of ancient societies -- all have to be analyzed before they can be appreciated." Besides, Professor Asimov has a vision: "I believe that if there's such a thing as God's word, it's rationality, and I have the call to spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Protean Penman | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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