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After the simple shocks of Dressed to Kill, De Palma is out to deploy subtler strategies. As a result, Blow Out is less scary but more skillful. One sequence, involving a murderous attack in a Philadelphia train station, tantalizes with portent and discretion. From outside a toilet stall, we see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Crash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

The troops who went to Korea got a muted version of the welcome. But then came America's longest, strangest war. From that one, in Viet Nam, the boys came home alone, mostly one by one. Sometimes they would arrive in the middle of the night, almost as if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Warriors | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

The early days of a revolution are a time of pervasive confusion. A sense of sweeping change exhilarates some people, frightens others and causes nearly all to question anxiously just what the changes eventually will mean for the shape and texture of their own lives. So it was in Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This May Hurt a Little | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

Administration officials concede that there is some organizational confusion. But they insist that there is an overall policy, and that their seeming obsession with the Soviet Union is based not only on ideology but on the perception that the U.S. is in a position of weakness in relation to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Globetrotters with No Compass? | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

The relative impunity with which people take coke is encouraged by the fact that judges are notoriously reluctant to hand down heavy penalties for possession. Unlike the stereotyped scruffy ghetto addict who turns to mugging or burglary to support his habit, the cocaine user may have a three-piece suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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