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Writer-producer-director Michael Mann's biggest previous accomplishment was producing "Miami Vice," and it shows. The movie is visually self-indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The...

Author: By Thomas J. Scocca, | Title: EVIL IN HOLLYWOOD | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

The roadside scene was a little dramatization of the American theme of 1984: an extravagance of renewed national self-confidence and pride. By a collusion of timing and chemistry and artful television technique and happy economics, the nation fell into a spirit of coalescence and optimistic self-assertion not seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Gas at the pump is already about 55% higher than last spring-$1.20 for a gallon of regular, vs. 77? last year -and sure to go up again soon. Prices now range from $1.14 in San Antonio to $1.27 in Chicago. Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill said last week that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Easing Up on the Pedal | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

His nights were reserved for sordid encounters. Cavafy secretly kept a room in a brothel on Alexandria's Rue Mosquée Attarine and took willing boys there. But he expressed no more than the most fleeting qualms about his homosexuality. He seems to have been much more disturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bard from Byzantium | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

The second play on this double bill, Jakey Fat Boy, is a hilarious putdown of the hopped-up cult of being "with it." Much of the humor revolves around malicious In jokes about Kenneth Tynan, deviser of Oh! Calcutta! Jake, the hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swinging, Sophisticated Party | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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