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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no unanimity of New Age belief in anything, but many New Agers do believe in unidentified flying objects, crewed by oddly shaped extraterrestrials who have long visited the earth from more advanced planets, spreading the wisdom that created, among other things, Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt. Government officials keep announcing that there are no such things as UFOs, but the National Science Foundation reported last year that 43% of the citizenry believe it "likely" that some of the UFOs reported "are really space vehicles from other civilizations." (And where did those airstrip-like markings in the Peruvian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...John deigned to dispense his wisdom and might...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: `Twas Twenty-One Days Before Christmas | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Christine Burns (groin) and Char Joslin (wisdom teeth) did not suit up for the game. Their status is day-to-day...The Crimson outshot B.C., 44-3...Brita Lind, Nina Simonds, and Co-Captain Johanna Neilson also scored for Harvard...Dooley commented about the slow, unsurfaced ice in the third period: "I liked the slow ice, because [we] could work off the [Thanksgiving] turkey," he joked...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Icewomen Ground Eagles, 7-0 | 12/1/1987 | See Source »

...about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances (see Pretty in Pink) have always insisted that the American underclass is actually superior to its middle-class betters in worldly wisdom and moral acuity. Both his comic virtue and his social vision are on pleasant display here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Worst-Case Scenario PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Perhaps, he thinks, it is the setting: "In the theater they see ; you as an artist instead of a bum telling jokes in a toilet." Then again, the Honda commercial may have it right: "Nobuddy understends dis." Or needs to. "As long as they laugh," Mason figures with rabbinical wisdom, "who cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Mason: Rabbi's Son Makes Good | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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