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  • Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down These Bricks: Tetris and the Cold War

    BY DAN BRAM Let’s think, for a moment, about the popular culture of the American 80s. We were a culture of excess with much to spare: everyone wanted a piece of Americana, from South Africa to Czechoslovakia, Australia to Nicaragua. Ironically enough, one of the main cravers of American pop culture was our then-eternal nemesis—the…