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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps its most remarkable attainment is that the premise and structure, which sound inordinately egghead when described, are easy to grasp in performance. The action begins with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hello Again to the Long Goodbye | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

The Springtime of Nations, as the 1848 events were known, was a chain reaction of democratic revolutions that erupted against the autocratic rule of hereditary monarchs and in favor of democracy. It began in Paris and spread south to Italy and east to Poland. Crowds gathered in major European cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

In 1848 as in 1989, men with little or no political experience were suddenly thrust into positions of leadership. Then as now, the European uprisings fanned the flames of nationalism and raised what came to be known as "the German question" -- the possibility that all Germans would unite in one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Azusa Pacific quickly discovered it had a one-man juggernaut on the field. With a 34-in. waist and 28-in. thighs, Okoye was a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics champion in discus, hammer throw, and shot put competitions. And, in a fateful decision now regretted by many opposing linemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kansas City's Gentle Giant | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Three attorneys visited at a specified time last month. "We had tried to arrange our own date, but we were told that he was a busy man," says Keith Kunene, head of the Black Lawyers' Association. Mandela gave them a tour that included a room where he gets a weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunch With Nelson | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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