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Private Benjamin, meet Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...former Prime Minister Ian Smith, believe that Nkomo is the only black leader with the charisma and political clout to pull the shattered pieces of Rhodesia together again. Said one white businessman who met him in Salisbury last week: "Politically speaking, Joshua makes the Bishop look like a choirboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Grim Problems for the Smiler | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...labor law was accidentally discovered by Brigitte Winkler, 28, a reporter for the Vienna daily Kurier and the sister of a former choirboy. She charged that the choir's paid performances were illegal, and her articles triggered a search by city officials for an exemption from the law for the choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Silent Choir | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...York City next month. But the silence will shatter a tradition that goes back to 1498, when Emperor Maximilian founded the group. Amending the legislation will take time. Says Choir Director Walter Tautschnig: "I have spent Christmas at the Hofburg chapel for almost 50 years, from choirboy to director. It almost breaks my heart to miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Silent Choir | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Despite his youth and choirboy looks, the 5-ft. 6-in. Kucinich (pronounced Koosin-itch) is a savvy veteran of Cleveland's bruising ward politics. The son of a truck driver, he grew up on the city's ethnic, working-class West Side (his father is Croatian, his mother Irish). At 23, he won a seat on the city council and six years later was elected clerk of courts, the city's second highest elective office. A maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Boy Mayor Has Problems | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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