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...work in government, jam it," Moynahan said in an anti-Bush administration statement he distributed. "If in the military, you may be in a position to spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...Sunday afternoon, and thousands of Japanese teenagers jam the narrow streets of Tokyo's Harajuku district. They are in search of a life-style that can be bought, often dearly, in the dozens of stores crammed into the crowded area. Along Takeshita-dori, a narrow street in the heart of the district, are shops with curious names -- Octopus Army, Short Kiss, Good Day House -- that offer a variety of identities. There are button-down collars and plaid pants for the preppie look, floral prints and batiks for the Third World ethnic look, tennis and soccer equipment for the ultra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: American Casual Seizes Japan | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

SCHIRNDING, West Germany--Thousands of young East German refugees rolled into West Germany at the rate of more than 100 an hour yesterday, causing a traffic jam that stretched several miles back into Czechoslovakia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thousands Flee to West German Border | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...them apart from their psychedelic past. Bob Weir's "Victim or the Crime" is the exception which proves the rule on the Dead's newest release--this seven-minute, 33-second composition quickly devolves into a reflection back on some of the Dead's early tonal experimentation and instrumental jam sessions...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Still Truckin' | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...something that touched people all over the world. Wherever his records were available, young musicians strove to copy his sound. Woody first confronted this phenomenon in 1971, when he went to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage ! Festival and sat in on some French Quarter jam sessions. "There was a Japanese George Lewis and a British George Lewis and a Jewish George Lewis. It was really hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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