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Most of Tom's filial anxiety is expressed in petulant silences, terse complaints or brooding bedroom confidences to his wife. The dominant mood of the story is foreboding, not confrontation. Arlen enlarges the narrative with flashbacks, precise observations of the Southwestern landscape, persuasively detailed descriptions of scenes from Sam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battleground | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

"They're hugging the shore line," said Jeff. "I think they've just come off the nest. Let's give them some peace." He idled the engine down while the loons swam around a point and out of sight. Just after the young are hatched, loons move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Looking Out for the Loons | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

All twinkly and crinkly, spouting sentimental songs and blarney-encrusted stories, the face of a certain kind of jolly theatrical performer used to be referred to as "the map of Ireland." For a revised and updated emotional cartography, audiences are advised to stare long and hard into the physiognomy of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Passion on a Darkling Plain | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Otherwise, Director Jack Hofsiss (who staged The Elephant Man) has done little more than transfer the play cleanly to the small screen and keep our eyes riveted on the performers. In this case, that is enough. Though Tommy Lee Jones, as Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Maggie the Cat Is Alive! | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

In 1968, as the Soviets marched into Czechoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky marched out, heading for Canada. On the way, he ran across his countryman Milan Kundera in Paris. Brooding over the Nazi invasion of their homeland during World War II, the Soviet occupation of the moment and the possibility of exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comic Exile in Three Worlds | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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