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Colby Chandler, 58, is in "a time between eras" and requires "a clear vision of the road ahead." A genial man who wears a Ronald McDonald wristwatch and drives a pickup truck, Chandler has his eye on new, nonfilm technologies like picture-recording optical discs. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiming for a Brighter Picture | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

The park superintendent has made life difficult for today's fence climbers by placing metal screening on the gates in the open space above the locks. But little else has changed in Gramercy Park in the past 25 years. The once titillating statue of the half-naked woman (or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Christmas in a Small Place | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

In distinct contrast to this edgy placement of Englishmen on Irish soil (a juxtaposition which comes up repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life...

Author: By Mark Murray, | Title: Irish Tragedies | 11/18/1983 | See Source »

Like any movie (overtly political or not) with a strong point of view, Boat People is propaganda. Most of Vietnamese officialdom is polite but abrupt, in a hurry to build a model Marxist nation. The film's heroes are the "misfits" who anchor their dreams in the past or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Faraway Place | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

A professor at Harvard since 1949, Bailyn--or "But," as he is known to friends--has written or edited more than a dozen books documenting the history of the American revolutionary and colonial eras. One book, "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution," won a Pulitzer Prize: another. "The Ordeal...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Heirs Apparent? | 11/12/1983 | See Source »

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