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Yes, this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored...

Author: By T. M. Doyle, | Title: Too Much Sauce | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Bunting, in fact, seems bored by his city-slicker of a biographer. He wants to be off alone hunting coons or chasing down moon-shiners--anywhere.

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

The fragmentation of the P.L.O. in the wake of its 1982 expulsion from Lebanon may help explain the increased violence. Now dispersed from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the P.L.O.'s young guerrillas are becoming bored after three years of relative inactivity. Says a P.L.O. expert in Tunis: "Launching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

His competence at The New Yorker eventually bored him. In 1938, he and Katharine moved to a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin, on the Maine seacoast. Ross was flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Master of Luminous Prose E.B. White: 1899-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

"Both men and women get bored with studying cases and talking about business," she says. "It's great to talk to people who aren't from here."

Author: By Maria L. Crisera, | Title: Mixing Business School and Pleasure | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

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