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Loyola Law School. Southern California's Frank Gehry -- whose buildings are tough, peculiar, playful and often brilliant -- became the architectural avatar of the last half of the decade. His campus for Loyola in Los Angeles (1985), a dense little complex of rough stucco and plywood and cheap steel, is a thoroughly apt, gratifyingly civilized work...
...have been a significantly good decade," says Malcolm Forbes, 70, the ebullient magazine publisher whose $2 million Moroccan birthday party for himself epitomized the decade's love of self-indulgence. "Critics point to the glitterful excesses and the greed, but, God, they miss the point," says Forbes. "This was the decade that saw the triumph of U.S.-led free enterprise. Rebuilding the economies of Eastern Europe now offers huge opportunities, and it will be done in the next decade...
This year, as world attention ricocheted from the stirrings of democracy in the U.S.S.R. to the massacre in Beijing and the peaceful revolts in Eastern Europe, it became clear that we were witnessing a sequence of events that began well before 1989 and whose impact would extend into the next decade, perhaps the next century. Somehow, confining our choice to 1989 seemed inadequate, and thus we named Gorbachev Man of the Decade. The project was coordinated by editor at large Strobe Talbott and Brigid O'Hara-Forster, chief researcher of the World section...
...preparations are scarcely usual in the Bush White House, they are not as stunningly out of character as they would have seemed only a few months ago. The Panama invasion marks the latest, but far from the first, stage in a monumental transformation of George Bush: from a President whose overriding imperative during his initial months in office was to avoid doing "something dumb," to a self-confident chief mapping a bold and individual -- if not always prudent -- foreign policy that he is quite willing to back with military force...
...over time, fewer and fewer Russians fit the stereotype of illiterate peasants on whose bovine passivity Czar or commissar could rely. Soviets were increasingly well educated and well informed, in spite of the propaganda poured over them. And while they reached political maturity, their leadership sank into senility. The people cringed when they heard the doddering Leonid Brezhnev try to form his words and when they learned that his hands were so shaky he had to eat with a spoon at a state dinner. They told scornful jokes: state radio, cynics said, dared not play any work by Tchaikovsky...