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...U.S.F.L., which needed to win megabucks just to stay in business, the verdict may spell doom. The outcome was the sudden-death climax of a game that had more fumbles than the sorriest preseason scrimmage. The U.S.F.L.'s suit was watched with immense curiosity by millions of fans who recognize that pro sports are as much about greed as glory and cheered on by local boosters who feel that no city can call itself big league without a pro-football team. More than mere football, the struggle was redolent of the battles among 19th century steel and rail barons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacked! | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...movie doesn't seem to know how to treat what one expects to be its central focus--the nuclear testing that its created as backdrop. Vague references are made to it throughout the movie, and the movie's climax is a huge explosion. One wishes, like Rose's step-father, that one could see more of the glamorized military intelligentsia. This is probably the same desire that many Las Vegans had in the 1950s. However, they had to live their lives, as boring as they might have been. You don't have to see this movie...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Go for the Main Meal, Skip Desert | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with evil. As Director Cameron says, the endless "remulching" of ( the masculine hero by the "male-dominated industry" is, if nothing else, commercially shortsighted. "They choose to ignore that 50% of the audience is female. And I've been told that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Many now fear that the fuse of Protestant anger could be set alight by the Orangemen's peaceful but boisterously partisan rites. So it is that Irish eyes are anxiously turned to the climax of the year's 1,800 marches this coming Saturday. As many as half a million Protestants will take to the streets across the province in memory of Protestant William of Orange's victory over James II, England's last Roman Catholic King, at the Battle of the Boyne, 296 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Putting Protest Back in Protestant | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Great Wall if you are expecting to see a Comedy, Tragedy, or any movie of a set genre. This movie belongs to no genre; it is only about life and people who live. There are no morals at the end of this movie, and no great climax, only a rather routine happy ending...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Great Wall | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

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