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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sakharov participated in a public demonstration for the first time on Dec. 5, 1966, joining a tiny band of dissidents who had assembled in Moscow's Pushkin Square to call for a new and genuine Soviet constitution. His increasingly open defiance of the government caused his three children by his first wife virtually to disown him. Nonetheless, Sakharov gave them his comfortable Moscow apartment and his dacha when he stripped himself of the luxuries he had acquired as a nuclear physicist. He donated his life savings of $153,000, an astronomical sum by Soviet standards, to cancer research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, a Tomorrow Without Battle: Andrei Sakharov: 1921-1989 | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...time when Tree bit Danny Ainge. When Laimbeer roamed the plains. Maxwell did his rubber band act. Moses never got called for a foul. Parish never stopped running the floor. Len Bias stopped living...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

This hatred translates into death and forced poverty for the count's sons. When it escalates into the count's incestuous encounter with his own daughter, his wife and children band together to murder the wicked patriarch...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...five-night engagement in Worcester marked the beginning of Joel's Storm Front tour, and his band was tight, stomping their way through "Pressure" and "You May Be Right." Saxophonist Mark Revere added extra flourish to the show, and maniacal drummer Liberty DeVito is always entertaining to watch...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Sometimes a Piano | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...Billy Joel concert to see the band, though, and Joel remained the center of attention, racing through the audience on "Only The Good Die Young," cartwheeling off his Steinway on "Big Shot," and performing nearmagical tricks with the piano. Joel played behind his back, used his feet and alternated hands with such speed that at times he seemed little more than a blur at the keyboard...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Sometimes a Piano | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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