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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Azerbaijan native is already a saavy and outspoken critic of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and he sits on the Azerbaijan Central Committee...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Kasparov is a critic of the Soviet Union," he says, "but everyone there is a critic [nowadays], including Gorbachev, Ligachev, Yeltsin, and Shevarnadze...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Chess Champion Kasparov Crushes Harvard, 8-0 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...possible to be entranced by photography and at the same time disquieted by its powerful capacity to bypass thought. Photography, as the critic Susan Sontag has pointed out, is an elegiac, nostalgic phenomenon. No one photographs the future. The instants that the photographer freezes are ever the past, ever receding. They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...words of one critic in August, "This is the arrogance of an elite which is absolutely certain it knows what is best for everbody." In lay terms, there is further justified cause for concern any time a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges--or about 60 colleges nationwide--get together to set prices for one thing they define as "education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cause for Concern | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

That unscheduled appearance prompted New York Times music critic John S. Wilson to hail Woody's playing as "one of the most invigorating and encouraging evidences of the continuity of the New Orleans jazz tradition." Other critics have not been so effusive. "I wouldn't rate him as a professional," says Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. "It's cute; it doesn't do any harm...

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

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