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...HELLENISTIC CYNIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...Cannes '88 presented a picture of world cinema as seen through a cynic's squint, three of the most acclaimed films gave a child's-eye view of the struggle for survival and identity. Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! traces the odyssey of a ten-year-old boy abandoned in India's fetid slums. This artful heartbreaker (which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature) is made with passion and tact -- an expose that also, eloquently, reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Clint, Brits And Kids at Cannes | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Todd is neither a cynic nor a coward, and he never dodges the consequences of his own wild inspiration. Rousseau, he recognizes, is the "first modern man . . . ((who)) spoke for all of us suffering mortals, our vanities, our hopes, our moments of greatness and our base corrupted natures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rousseau Redux THE NEW CONFESSIONS | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...much more of an idealist than a cynic," Bochco says, "more of an optimist than a pessimist." To be sure, his own life is one argument for the possibility of having it all. Bochco, boyishly charming but prematurely gray, lives with his second wife, Actress Barbara Bosson (who co-stars in Hooperman), and two children in a spacious 14-room house in Pacific Palisades. In a town of driven workaholics, Bochco nearly always gets home for dinner with the family. "What keeps him fresh is that he's not obsessive," says Producer Milch. "He doesn't occupy the self-enclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Changing The Face of Prime Time | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...significant misgivings. Reading about the disaster for the second time, the reader feels a certain rage at the arrogance and idiocy that caused it, and cares enough about the astronauts--who had no inkling of the O-ring difficulty--to grieve for them. None but the most iron-hearted cynic could enjoy a space shuttle joke after reading this book...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: The Seamy Side of the Shuttle | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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