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In case that message might be lost in any upsurge of nostalgia on the second anniversary of the birth of Solidarity, security police turned Gdansk into an armed camp and quickly dispersed a crowd of 200 young demonstrators. In Warsaw, several hundred Poles braved water cannons to add flowers, greenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Recalling in Sorrow and Hope | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

During his five-month trial, Colonel Thomas Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, who gained notoriety while soldiering for fortune in the Congo during the 1960s, put up a plucky front. During recesses Hoare entertained visitors with tales of his derring-do and signed copies of his swashbuckling biography, entitled Congo Mercenary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Cooked Goose | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

Blade Runner, like its setting, is a beautiful, deadly organism that devours life; and Ford, the cockily engaging Star Warrior of Raiders of the Lost Ark, allows his heroic stature to shrivel inside it. In comparison, Hauer's silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Pleasures of Texture | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

Das Boot takes another plunge into the black pool of memory and finds-surprise!-flinty nobility. Actually, no surprise for anyone who feasted on the submarine movies of the 1950s. Here is the dogged captain (Jürgen Prochnow), navigating g the straits of political bureaucracy ""and a bungling high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bravado Is Their Passport | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

That pell-mell derring-do is not for the courts but for the cameras. It is the climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Always Get Their Man | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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