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Joffe would also have been better off to let the movie speak for itself, rather than imposing a sappily obvious soundtrack. As Pran escapes through a Cambodian countryside literally littered with bodies, the gloomy music almost turns the horror into self-parody. Puccinni and John Lennon do not belong in the same movie, ever...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cambodia Witness | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...industrial waste, although the author's larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death 'N' Things White Noise: by Don DeLillo | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...with its corollary that Roman Catholics should actively seek to overturn legislation that allows the taking of prenatal life, has put the Vatican in a confrontation with 24 American nuns that could lead to their expulsion from religious life. The nuns are among 97 Catholics, including three men who belong to religious orders, who signed "A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and + Abortion," an advertisement published in the New York Times last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shutting the Door on Dissent | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums were believed to belong to the Hizballah (Party of God), the shadowy Shi'ite group blamed by some U.S. officials for the Beirut annex assault and the 1983 attacks against the U.S. Marine barracks and the main U.S. embassy in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Also Made History | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...that "a member of the government would speak to the discredit of his own Cabinet." Said Jospin: "I agree that we must listen to the voice of the French people, but let us not forget the principles of Socialism, the importance of class differences, and the fact that we belong to the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Season of Discontent | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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