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Regan defended the President's intentions in trying to get American hostages back from Lebanon in return for U.S. weapons, and stated his certainty that Reagan knew nothing of the diversion to the contras. But one of his disclosures could prove damaging to the President. Since the early days of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Very Difficult to Accept | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

Take Montand's Cesar, for example. His stride, his gesture, his voice bespeak implacable authority. Even his mustache reinforces the message. It is not the adornment of routine villainy, crimped and primped, but an ample, well-rooted assertion of masculine self-sufficiency, of immunity to the judgments of common men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time, Space and the Joy of Evil JEAN DE FLORETTE | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

TELEPHONES. The dismantling of Ma Bell in 1984, the result of a Government antitrust suit, is probably the most unpopular deregulatory move. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll published in April, 59% of consumers think the breakup was a "bad thing." One emerging problem is the perceived decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Back Regulation | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

The film lays out Vietnam before the audience in all its scintillating confusion. It does not indulge in the gruesome battles of "Platoon," but it also does not manipulate its audience into feeling terrorized by the silver screen.

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: AT THE MOVIES | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

Kubrick keeps the audience distanced from the action, inflicting on them the confusion that the soldiers themselves sense as he weaves them in and out of combat situation. But the confusion of the physical environment has entered the soldiers' souls, reflected best by one young recruit nicknamed Joker, who wears...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: AT THE MOVIES | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

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