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As records, neither Lauper's nor Madonna's efforts come within a mile of Tina Turner's splendid album of racked soul, Private Dancer, or get into the depth and irony explored by Linda Thompson on the just released One Clear Moment. But, as pop icons, Lauper and Madonna are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Greene does justice to his very special subject, a man whom, he admits in the book's foreword, "I had grown to love." While touring the countryside with the general, he sees Torrijos the politician, yielding to irate farmers on the price of crops. Later we see the General's...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Getting to Know Omar | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

Soviet Foreign Minister and First Deputy Premier Andrei Gromyko had said it all before too, and he was no more yielding in private than he had been in public. All very well to talk about flexibility, he said, in effect, but the U.S. is taking unreasonable positions; it would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Ground | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

The pact was in doubt right up to the final minute. Peres, who had until Sept. 16 to form a government, faced growing opposition within his own ranks. Seven Knesset allies, including the tiny leftist party, Mapam, refused to link themselves with their longtime ideological foes in Likud and withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: At Last, a Handshake for Unity | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

To scientists, putting the demands of native custom before those of scientific knowledge is a disturbing trend. Ancient bones often provide the sole link to prehistoric societies, giving evidence of diet, brain size, stature, disease and longevity. Should scientists be deprived of the right to study these precious fossils, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Burying Bones of Contention | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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