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...Fusco jumped to the ice for shift after shift--Cleary having long abandoned his usual four-line system--the truth seemed to get clearer...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Nightmare: Never Going to Score Again | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

...this point, Lowry's life becomes a quest to find and meet the beloved Jill, even at the price of gaining a promotion through his sleazy but influential mother (Katherine Helmond). In his search for more information about Jill, the obscene brutality of his world becomes clearer and clearer. For instance, he accidentally discovers that his best friend (Michael Palin, whose performance combines aspects of Josef Mengele and Mr. Rogers into one person) does not run an office, but a torture chamber, gouging people's eyes out while his secretary takes dictation...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Brazil's Flying Circus | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...Stubbs horses hanging above them, borrowed from a different estate. The cast list of painters and sculptors, silversmiths, ebenistes and potters is immense, and though there are disappointments--Turner, for instance, is poorly represented --there are also some startling moments. It would be difficult to find a clearer or fresher Canaletto than his view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...meeting, Hussein said that he had given Arafat only a limited amount of time to provide that admission. Said the King: "There is no specific period of time, but we expect an answer in the near future . . . I believe that both the Jordanian and Palestinian sides have a clearer picture of where we stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Maneuvering for Position | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Calling for clearer, more straightforward critiques, the report says, "A Guide which presents all the courses in the College as equal mixtures of positive and negative is of little value" to students trying to choose between courses...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Council Group Endorses Student-Run CUE Guide | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

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