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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. (to all of the above) One guess is as good as another. Cox either stops short of the point of most scenes or rolls on past it. But there is something cheerful in the anarchy of his methods, something unpretentious in his allusions to the car's extraterrestrial dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quartet of Cult Objects | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Answering this question has divided the Latin American church. The struggle harks back to 1968, when the second Latin American Bishops' Conference met in Medellin, Colombia. A liberal minority at the conference won approval of a series of documents supporting the church's newly stated "preferential option for the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the Liberation Theologians | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: It's Better on Television | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

The Games had an even more remarkable dimension: they worked, and worked almost flawlessly. That is not the way they were supposed to go. The Soviets and more than a dozen Communist countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Working with standard Leicas and a new wide-angle camera called the Technorama, Ruetz records the country from his fresh, often idiosyncratic viewpoint. An aerial shot, intentionally, shows as much of the helicopter he is in as the Grand Canyon below. He gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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