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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The switch is the most complete undertaken by a Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Not even in Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Now You See It? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Such concessions were too much for some of the party's hard-liners. They set about forming their own political groups, each claiming to represent the ideals of the old Communist Party. "We will soldier on as a Communist Party," said Roland Antoniewicz, leader of the Janos Kadar Society, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Now You See It? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Lewis, who died in 1968, spent most of his life playing obscure New Orleans dance halls and parades until his "discovery" in the mid-'40s. Yet he had something that touched people all over the world. Wherever his records were available, young musicians strove to copy his sound. Woody first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

That quip was uncharacteristic of a man who scrupulously separates the clarinetist from the comedian and never tells a joke on the bandstand: when Woody is playing jazz, he's all stick and no shtick. Not that funny things haven't happened in connection with Woody's music. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Michael's Pub, where the band finally landed a regular gig in 1971, has been the scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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