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...pilot, the streetwise black private), and plot twists that are too patly "illuminating." When a battle- fatigued soldier is sent back into combat before he is ready -- over the objections of his sergeant and a psychiatrist -- you can bet that five minutes into his first mission he will go berserk and get shot. Still, the show has broached some touchy subjects, from officer corruption to cowardice in battle, with honesty and dramatic fluency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: War As Family Entertainment | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...fact, all sports have trouble recalling an occasion when the laws of the land superseded or even complemented the rules of the game. Within the white lines, berserk baseball players regularly brandish bats and spikes with legal impunity, and the football and basketball players who rampage beyond the whistle and the pale risk civil reparations at their worst. "It is time now," lectured Provincial Court Judge Sidney Harris, "that a message go out from the courts that violence in a hockey game or any other circumstances is not acceptable in our society." For one thing, he said, it "spills over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spilling Over into the Streets | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...most vital, varied cinema. Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives -- the best film at the festival and the winner of a critics' prize -- portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Clint, Brits And Kids at Cannes | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Tsingos said that when he heard he had been chosen, "I went berserk. I flipped a little bit. I think I woke my roommate...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Harvard Snags Three Trumans | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

Ugly guy who hangs out in basement of Paris Opera gets crush on cute chorister, secretly preps her as headliner, goes berserk when boyfriend comes on scene, writes opera with her in lead, gets ditched by girl and crawls into hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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