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...first hard to understand what this man is doing among all these movers and shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion, including a personal favorite, the "flash-bang-crash grenades," which blind anyone looking at them, blow out their eardrums, and "cause a ten-second paralysis." Just ten seconds...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Fact Follows Fiction | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

...Soviets obviously hoped that their brazen, perhaps desperate, action could help their puppet regime bring a stubborn Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan under control and thus stabilize a dangerous flash point on their southern border. But the coup, in fact, added a new dimension of uncertainty to an area of the world already deeply disturbed by the crisis in Iran. Moreover, the deployment of Soviet troops on foreign soil in Central Asia set a fearsome precedent that cast new shadows over international detente and Moscow-Washington relations. The SALT II accord, already in difficulty in the U.S. Senate, seemed even further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Steel Fist in Kabul | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is a Harlem slumlord with a goatee and an Afro, Marley's ghost marches through eternity in sneakers, and the three Christmas ghosts are high-stepping disco dancers. Even Dickens' capacious imagination could probably not have envisioned such sequins and flash. Taken on its own good-natured terms, however, Comin' Uptown is a high-gloss package that should bright en everybody's holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Scrooge, Demonic Shlemiel | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...decade or so that the big sales have been covered by the press as Events; the sums paid for art used to be buried in newspapers along with ship arrivals. Now, with the tremendous increases in fine arts prices and the expansion of public interest, big auctions have become flash bulb and video-tape fiestas. To a large extent the transformation has been wrought by Sotheby's, the world's largest, canniest and most aggressive house. In the late '50s Sotheby's introduced such techniques as international telephone hookups, bidding by closed-circuit TV, the gala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...rock-'n'-roll excess, working almost as much havoc on his own body as on the rooms he inhabited during tours. A hotel manager once appeared in Moon's room when he was playing a cassette at top volume and insisted he turn down "the noise." In a flash, Moon reduced the room to splinters, announcing, "This is noise. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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