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...Oval Office debut, Eduard Shevardnadze demonstrated that he had already mastered the institution of the White House "photo op" that precedes even the soberest diplomatic sessions. "The reporters are on the offensive," the genial Soviet Foreign Minister told Ronald Reagan. When asked by reporters what message he would convey to his host, Shevardnadze quipped, "If I tell everything to you, what am I going to say to the President next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Promising Offer | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...convey Holden's view one would have to shoot the entire film with some special distorted lens or some especially brilliant acting that would expose the phoniness that Salinger's narrative so painfully conveys--say, making headmasters look more literally like dachshunds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...putative heroes of these two bloodbaths--the kid who cried vampire too much and the I-eat-steal-wontons tough cop in Dragon look and feel so ... phony. More to amateurish acting in Fright Night and more to Mickey Rouke's pretentious acting in Dragon, both movies convey that condescending sense of cinematic closed-captioning for the slow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...been making myself laugh at horrible jokes. A random assortment of suicide notes would be far more amusing than anything I have heard. Although the majority of them are so ethnically and sexually offensive that even printing them would touch off a series of riots, it is possible to convey a little bit of their essence...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Special Duty | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Part of her success is due to the personal interest she takes in her teaching. Vosgerchian says she "tosses and turns" the night before every lecture because of her "intense desire to share" and the simultaneous fear that she might not convey her message to the students...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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