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...tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Soap Opera and Salvation | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...illusions surrounding supply-side theory have been thoroughly shattered, both for David Stockman, convert-turned-cynic in a few short months, and, we hope, for the American people. Stockman, the "point man" for the President's budget- and tax-slashing program, describes in chilling terms in the current Atlantic Monthly just whom the plan benefits--the "hogs" of American big business were "really feeding" on a diet of special tax breaks. At the same time, the measly reductions in personal income taxes were serving as a convenient Trojan Horse to calm the American people while the richest raked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Honest Man | 11/17/1981 | See Source »

Frank. Almost as sad as Lilly. A loyal, ungainly homosexual, a cynic and pedant who ends up as a successful literary agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...tragedy, which Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo document in delicious detail. Today Elvis remains a thriving industry, like Disney; this film is both a comment on that industry and (through the authorization of Presley's mentor, Colonel Tom Parker) a part of it. The remark of the Hollywood cynic, upon hearing of Elvis' death-"Good career move"-was prophecy after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: May 25, 1981 | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...South Bronx. If Laborit's analyses seem a little too pat when concerned with the pointless, emotional cruelty we inflict on one another in our personal relationships, his dominance theory is terrifyingly precise when it deals with global kingdom-making. And Resnais' haunting last shot could convert many a cynic to Laborit's religion. Wrong or right, you've got to give him credit for trying to find an answer...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Intelligent Rodent | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

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