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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the time difference between the United States and South Korea has pushed many major events into the wee hours of our morning. The American audience can hear results before they've had a chance to watch the match on TV, and this makes the broadcast less compelling...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Split-Screen Seoul Ache | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

...going to continue with half-screen coverage and tedious events, it may as well go ahead with its aborted plan to split the screen between sports and commercials. We still wouldn't get a close look at the Games, but at least we wouldn't have to watch the ads either...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Split-Screen Seoul Ache | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

These three faces of Tom Waits are what make Big Time more complicated to watch than a straightforward concert movie, such as Let's Spend the Night Together. He seems to be trying to figure out which of the three he is: the dreaming outsider, writing down lyrics fresh from the insanity of his lonely life; the cynical salesman-performer hyping himself into the big time; or a passionate performer who's kept his purity even in success. If you know Waits only for his music (an obviously ridiculous "only" considering how long he's been putting out good albums...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Tom Waits: Making it Big | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...Olympians had previously won a total of twelve national all-around titles; the '88 team has two. Time moved too slowly for those among the missing: Tim Daggett (broken leg), Dan Hayden (separated shoulder) and Sabrina Mar (chronic back disorder). Those to watch for: returning Olympian Scott Johnson, 27, who will compete with screws in his broken right hand; Charles Lakes, 24, America's first black Olympian gymnast; and Phoebe Mills, 15, the runaway U.S. Olympic trials winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Oops and Out For the U.S. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...ability to transcend family is exactly what you want in a President. You want someone who cares more about what's happening in Kuwait than about what's happening in his kid's kindergarten. You don't want a President who during an NSC briefing glances at his watch and thinks about the burning pot roast. You want someone whose family is grown up and gone, or who never had one. You want someone whose "total life," whose family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Spare Us the Family Album | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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