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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Leonard's chief adviser is a fine comic creation, an American named Glass, who sees a spy lurking on every barstool. On one pub crawl, they meet a pretty German divorcee named Maria, and she and Leonard begin an idyllic affair in which they make up their own rules of behavior. But one night, for reasons quite obscure to him, he acts sadistically, and their romance becomes more conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Spy? | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Arbat was lying beside him. Father looked tired, his face seemed grayer and older. He asked, "Do you know already? Did Mama tell you?" I nodded. "Scoundrels! I told them what I think of them. Perhaps I went too far, but it serves them right. They thought I would crawl on my belly in front of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Khrushchev On Khrushchev | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...redraw the boundaries of his country. At a meeting with young Communists last week, he predicted, "If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to you bluntly, we'll end up in such a civil war, in such bloody ! carnage that we won't be able to crawl out of it." Given the tragic memories in Tbilisi, it was a fate Georgians were determined to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Freedom's Haunting Melody | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Time-outs for commercials have slowed football games to a crawl. World Series contests are played on frigid October nights so home viewers can watch them in prime time. And the networks are spending billions in an escalating battle to win the rights to major events. Television, the medium that once merely covered America's favorite sports, has virtually taken them over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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