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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forster's minor and diverting novel. The formality of James Ivory's style suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering chaperone is marvelous, and so is Denholm Elliott, blustering common sense as George's father. Daniel Day Lewis as the well-named Vyse is terminally repressed, and Helena Bonham Carter establishes herself here (and in the recent Lady Jane) as one of the screen's most intriguing newcomers. No one plays adolescent petulance better just now; no one better understands the budding young lady's secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Stroll on the Wilde Side a Room with a View | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

From the moment Matsunaga entered Congress, as a member of the House in 1963, he began a lonely but determined campaign to create a national poetic license. Last year he finally succeeded. Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin agreed that each new consultant in poetry to the Library, a post that has existed for 50 years and carries a one- or two-year term, would also bear the title of poet laureate. Matsunaga was understandably elated: "The poet laureate of the U.S. will raise the prestige and respect of the poet to the point where youngsters will aspire to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Nation's Poet | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

When then-Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Moynihan first drew national attention to the teenage pregnancy problem in his famous report in 1965, Blacks and liberals accused him of racism. Until recently, Blacks suppressed any discussion of the deterioration of the Black family for fear of giving ammunition to those who had always blamed Blacks for their own difficulties...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...LOWBUDGET staging of Junior Common Room vinyl, the Lowell House Drama Society renders an impressive performance of Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A cosy setting without lights, curtain or stage serves to bring the audience right into the living room with sparring couple George (Daniel Zelman) and Martha (Alicia Rubin), and their tortured guests Nick (Aaron Carlos) and Honey (Jane Loranger...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Good Fright | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

White House communications director Patrick J. Buchanan argued that the Contra aid vote will reveal whether the Democratic Party "stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance -- or (Nicaraguan President) Daniel Ortega and the communists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contra Military Aid Bill Suffers Setback | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

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