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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, my first in college, I ran out of socks for the first time. And yes, I was one of the spoiled bunch that had never operated a washing machine before...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Saying the 'L' Word to the Folks | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

...Yes, America, this nation does not revolve on the axis of professional sports, no matter what television networks or advertisers might think...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: The Quake and the World Series: Baseball Takes Back Seat to Safety | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

Pardon me, but a lot of high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When 'Rape' Isn't Rape | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

This is the funny stuff? Yes, because Allen puts a deliberately farcical spin on Cliff's frenzies. It is good showmanship, a way of relieving the itchy ironies of Judah's discomfiting story. It also rings with irony. If neither Judah's guilty musings on his own crimes -- and he does exhibit a strong desire to be caught and punished -- nor decent Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Postscript to the '80s | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...programs. U.S. exporters, who have come to rely on foreign sales of their shows, assailed the new rule. "The European Community today took a step backward in time," complained Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. "They said no to competition and viewer choice and yes to trade barriers." In Congress, some even called for retaliatory measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY They Don't Love Lucy? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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