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Skeptics note that the Soviets could merely eliminate their aging T-54 and T-55 tanks, retaining their more modern T-80s, T-72s and T-64s, and that the old armor would not be missed. This argument is a switch. U.S. Army analysts have long insisted on counting older tanks in any attempt to achieve East-West parity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunching Gorbachev's Numbers | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Dale McKussic (Mel Gibson) is your basic existential hero of the California '80s: humanist hunk, thoughtful father, loyal friend, gentle lover and, oh, yes, a cocaine dealer. Now he wants to retire -- no pension, thank you, but no penance either. No police heat courtesy of an old-buddy cop (Kurt Russell). And no mortal wounds from rival coke kingpins or Mexican comandantes (Raul Julia). Just a cozy table for two with a hard-to-get restaurateur (Michelle Pfeiffer) who chirps skepticism like a tequila mockingbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Leon's fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Searching for Life's Elixir: HDL, the good cholesterol | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...stick-in-the-mud establishment became a call to arms for a generation of artists and writers determined to burst through the barricades and foment change. Dozens of "alternative" publications were born in the anarchic '60s and '70s only to sink like stones by the straight-arrow '80s. The few that survived are now finding themselves on the receiving end of Dylan's message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Upstart to Mainstream: Ms Magazine and Mother Jones | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...effort to update its image, Ms. recently launched a trade advertising campaign showing the gradual transformation of a hippie type, complete with beaded headband, into a blow-dried '80s woman. The tag: "We're not the Ms. we used to be." The campaign is reminiscent of a highly successful series of ads for another '60s-era publication, Rolling Stone, juxtaposing outdated "perceptions" of the magazine next to the "reality." Perception: a psychedelic van. Reality: a spiffy red sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Upstart to Mainstream: Ms Magazine and Mother Jones | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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