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Unfortunately, these themes unfold amid only the barest trappings of dramatic action. Falk, Svanhild, and their social circle, consisting of the various engaged couples and suitors plus an assortment of guests and maiden aunts, simply sit around philosophizing and arguing in a sort of endless garden party. Some pleasure derives...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Love's Verbosity | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

They claim to control one-fifth of El Salvador's national territory. Their fighting strength continues to grow, from 8,000 combatants in 1982 to 10,000 today. In the past year they have killed some 1,800 members of the Salvadoran army and security forces, knocked out key...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rebels' Disunited Front | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

"There is a big concern among some colleges to insure that the living facilities are more than dooms--that they are not places for students to retreat from academic life, but that they serve as bridges to the [academic] departments," said Associate Dean of Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67, who...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Following Harvard's Lead | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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