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...might be appalled by Bertrand Blier's Tenue de Soiree, a raucous romantic farce in which Macho Thief Gerard Depardieu gets the raging hots for Winsome Wimp Michel Blanc, and they both end up in drag. Still, the film is so ingenuous and vigorous that even an ardent feminist like yourself might surrender to its skewed charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Celebration of Reel Life | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Harvard probably should divest from companies that do business in South Africa if for no other reason than that a clear majority of Black South Africans seem to want it to. But divestment is not the black and white issue its most ardent supporters make...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Our Shantytown | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...EVER strike you as funny that liberals on campus are called liberals. One would assume that liberals would be ardent supporters of liberalism--that they would think individual rights and freedoms are paramount values, that they would fight for the rights of people to freely express themselves, and above all else, that they would be tolerant of other opinions...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Illiberal Liberals | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Even so, the Cardinal can still celebrate Mass with little obstruction, and the Roman Catholic Church continues to draw a far more sizable crowd than the People's Church, the officially sanctioned church, which fails to attract a large segment of the population and even alienates some ardent Sandinistas. "We will not provoke. We plan to continue our work," says Father Bismark Carballo, Obando's special assistant. "We still have the pulpits; they are still open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sidetracked Revolution | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...risk the inevitable U.S. reaction to placing offensive weapons in Nicaragua. More than a year ago, after receiving erroneous reports that the Soviets had sent MiG-21 fighter planes to the Sandinistas, the U.S. firmly warned the Kremlin that any offensive weapons in Nicaragua would be "unacceptable." Though an ardent suppliant for Soviet aid, Nicaragua does not appear to be quite the Soviet client state that Cuba is. The Kremlin regards Nicaragua as a "target of opportunity, and therefore useful, but also expendable," says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough military aid to make United States military intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Tug of War | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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