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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult question. We have not yet removed the locks from all the doors, locks that are sealed with sealing wax. It's my view that this issue ought to be open for discussion. That would be the first step. We are not ready today; I mean we are not ready today to take a decision on this tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with BORIS YELTSIN: One Bear Of a Soviet Politician: | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Through retailers, Coca-Cola is distributing 20 million pairs of cardboard glasses for the event. But unspectacled viewers will not see a blurry image, as they did with the '50s technology, used in movies like House of Wax. A new process, Nuoptix 3D, uses regular cameras and delivers a normal picture. The illusion of depth is created by different-color lenses in the glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Halftime Spectacles | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...nights ago Ronald Wilson Reagan delivered his farewell address, his opportunity to put his own special stamp on the American agenda for the 1990 s. But Reagan, always one to wax sentimental relied on chauvinistic slogans and wasted the chance to offer the nation his view of how it can improve in the near future...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Bye, Bye, Ron | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

Green Fuse cut two singles, four songs, at the Fort Apache recording studio in Roxbury two weeks ago. These 45s, printed on green wax, should be ready for release by Christmas time, Brenner says. He adds that he hopes that the Lowell House party will help to get some of the soon-to-be-released singles on the air at local radio stations by building up the number of their fans. "That's why we're looking forward to playing at Harvard because we want to build a following," Brenner says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Easy Being Green | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...shuttle rather than a glitzier image of a flying casino may be better suited to its puritanical passengers. "It's pretty much a business operation," says airline analyst Raymond Neidl. "If he glitzes it up too much, the average guy will say, 'That's not my ball of wax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Donald Trumps the Shuttle | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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