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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the sublime to the ridiculous. That is the nature of travesty. It makes you feel like laughing hysterically, at the same time as you continue to beat your head against a wall...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Ironies Aren't Funny | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...should be concerned with safety and "not their own profit motive," said the co-chairmen of the Phillip Brooks House's Harvard Environmental Action, Michael E. Wall...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: HRE Calls Cleanup Program Too Strict | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...someone answered, "northeast South America." Nesty, who trains at the University of Florida, was the first citizen of this former Dutch colony to win an Olympic medal. Biondi, leading at 98 meters, was caught awkwardly between strokes and, a relative newcomer to the fly, tried to glide to the wall. "I was afraid if I took another stroke, what would touch first would be my nose," he explained gloomily. But Nesty, who won the same race in the Pan American Games last year, belonged on the Olympic victory stand, and so did a surprising number of athletes from countries whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splashes Of Class And Acts of Heroism | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce Goff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Splendor Packaged In Kitsch | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...everyone speaks of failed visions. A vastly successful Wall Street commodities broker demands, "Why is ((the farmer)) a solid citizen? That's a myth. The myth is that land is good, right? Farmers work hard, right? That's also a myth . . . Ten years from now, there will be less farmers. We don't need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dream, and Where It All Started | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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