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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have relished pawing Nixon, who hated to be touched. For all Brezhnev's bulk, there was something oddly "dainty" about him, as Willy Brandt put it. Here was huge, shapeless Mother Russia dressed as a man, the androgynous nation full of bear hugs and danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Half a World Lies Open | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Such missteps are rare. The bulk of the show-bulky indeed at three and a quarters' hours running time-is authoritative despite a setting and idiom which differ emphatically from the Shakespearean, the modern, or anything yet between the two. This Verona, though at times unsubtle suburban in tone, also glitters with an extra vagina sense of the exotic...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Another World | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

McCarthy has put on some poundage and muscle since then--bulk she desperately needed. "During freshman year I was still recovering from anorexia (an eating disorder)," she says. In high school McCarthy was obsessed with dieting and lost more than 10 pounds to register a meager 64 pounds on the scale. "My ballet teacher was in hysterics." McCarthy remembers. "she brought me all sports of things like natural peanut butter. But of course when people are pushing food on you, you just want it less...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Wiley McCarthy | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...mistakes him for a hippie (there is a certain antique air about the movie, which is based on a 1972 novel), he returns to assert his right to come and go as he pleases. This leads to jail, a breakout and the extraordinary wilderness chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare. The movie occasionally pauses to strum a familiar ironic chord: that the skills that make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Primary Colors | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas it seems pellucidly clear that they have copped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Windbags Inc. | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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