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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dearing noted that his setter, Mark Mastin, had many kills by just tipping the ball over the net. Mastin's tip-overs and his teammate Mike Palazzo's blocks and spikes were three key reasons that led to the Crimson loss.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Drop Match To Roger Williams | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

The novel, in fact, begins with a big bang: the blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Explosive Reception | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Chandler is not, of course, the only American writer with a centenary this year who worked in a British bank, steeped his writing in the classics and explored the breakdowns of the age in cadences so memorable that he seems to have taken up a time-share ownership of Bartlett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Private Eye, Public Conscience | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

How hard it is to regard Bush and Dukakis in these epic terms. Viewed as comparatively little men at the time of their nominations, both have, if anything, been diminished by the campaigns they have waged. The ugliness of Bush's exploitation of the pseudo issues of patriotism and crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Differences That Really Matter | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Debates can be a feast for information-hungry voters, but most nights Americans must subsist on the Lean Cuisine of 30-second spots. During the three-day period before the debate, at least ten different TV commercials for Bush and Dukakis were airing in Toledo. They were all highly negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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