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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knowledge and choice can be chaotic and dangerous. School curriculums have been adapted to teach about new topics: AIDS, ADOLESCENT SUICIDE, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, INCEST. Trust is the child's natural inclination, but the world has become untrustworthy. The hazards of the adult world, its sometimes fatal temptations, descend upon children so early that the ideal of childhood is demolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes Of Children | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...rope walk at the Arsenal, you can go back to the museums and immerse yourself in the Venetian past, an experience that tends to put some of the achievements of late or postmodernism in perspective. Moreover, it takes you away from the throng of dealers and neocollectors who descend on the Biennale like salesmen at a security-devices convention in Akron and would not lightly squander their quality time on something as old hat as a Veronese or a Tintoretto ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venice Biennale Bounces Back | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...adds that the Museum planned the exhibit for July without knowing that a heat wave would descend on the city during that month. "The heat has certainly boosted attendance, and we could hardly have planned on that...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Summer Splash at The Children's Museum | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

Almost as regularly as the summer solstice sunrise that they come to celebrate every June, crowds of scruffy youths descend before dawn on ancient Stonehenge on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Last week 4,000 hippies, as they are quaintly called in Britain, turned the annual rite into a full-scale riot, partly to protest the barriers erected around the early Bronze Age monument in recent years to protect it from crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: From Rite To Riot | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet Union. Jackson wrote this week's lead story in the World section on the special Communist Party conference that begins June 28. At that meeting, liberal reforms undreamed of in Jackson's early Soviet years will be debated openly. Journalists from around the world have begun to descend on Moscow for the event, their work aided by the proliferation of news conferences, press centers and ever helpful spokesmen. Jackson, however, will not be there to enjoy them. Instead, he will be in West Germany taking up his new duties as TIME's Bonn bureau chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 27, 1988 | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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