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Bah! How can one deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorial Privacy | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

Diva, a first feature by Jean-Jacques Beineix, 35, has flair to spare. No picturesque French location, from a bombed-out concert hall to a Normandy lighthouse, is too remote. No surface-water, a car hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flair Ball | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Last week parents returned to Bishop McNamara's gym to negotiate for a second year. The sessions were 20-minute low-key talks at folding card tables. Says Savella: "It's kind of like hearing confession, except this is a business transaction." Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pay-What-You-Can Plan | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

Amazingly, Pryor pulled through; within two months he was telling Barbara Walters and a national TV audience how he had died and been born again. More amazingly, and even more typically, he was able to focus the laser of his art on this suicidal immolation. "Before I go to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pryor's Back ? Twice as Funny | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

The traffic is heavy, the air polluted. No detail is too gross and no conversation too crude to be recorded. It is as if Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mortal Sins | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

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