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Word: bosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KNIFE (PBS, July 20, 9 p.m. on most stations). An unhappy movie star (Peter Gallagher) struggles against the manipulations of a Machiavellian studio boss in Clifford Odets' sharp-edged 1949 drama about Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 25, 1988 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...Harry, San Francisco's most lethal cop, Eastwood can earn both laughs and respect just by standing in a crowded elevator and grunting "Swell" to his boss. Truth is, this time around, he doesn't get to do much else. Evan Kim, as Inspector Harry's Chinese-American partner, is allowed to display some martial-arts machismo. Liam Neeson, playing a director of low-budget slasher movies who is high on Harry's list of suspects in a serial-killer case, corners the market in upscale cynicism. James Carrey gets to go fruitfully bananas as a rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harry Sundown THE DEAD POOL | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...support in Britain than in the U.S. To Lettice, modernism scorns the past and its romance. Yet what lingers from the play's three sprawling hours is Smith's one-woman parade of fussy antics and arch-nasalities to the dumb-struck wonderment of Margaret Tyzack as the horrified boss turned sly collaborator. Shaffer needs to edit and focus. Lettice's architectural views notwithstanding, less can be more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: London's Dry Season | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the best-known political casualty of the Gorbachev era, former Moscow Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, issued a typically brash plea for political rehabilitation. Fired last November for his attacks on fellow Politburo members who showed a lack of enthusiasm for Gorbachev's reforms, Yeltsin portrayed himself as the victim of circumstance. "I believe that my only + mistake was that I chose the wrong time, ((just)) before the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Revolution," said Yeltsin, now a high-ranking construction minister. "I took very much to heart what happened." Showing that he is as combative as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union More Than Talk | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...fast-food joint and learns that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help mistaking him for a toad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Taming of Eddie Murphy COMING TO AMERICA | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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