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The Sam Peckinpah Memorial Prize, named after the late, occasionally great director (The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country), is awarded -- on an erratic basis, naturally -- to filmmakers whose works include the following elements:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Ample EXTREME PREJUDICE | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

So I sat down at my desk and began plowing. Eight hours later I was finished, my hair snow white and my heartbeat a little erratic but otherwise none the worse for wear. Even though I had perused only a small portion of the work, I felt ready to bang...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

The second monologue is delivered by Clark, and it's a real wall-biter. Up and down she babbles and raves, running the gamut of emotions from unhappiness to depression. Granted, Clark's role is the least interesting and worst written of the three, providing no clue as to what...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Harvard Theater | 4/15/1987 | See Source »

For a deal like that, no terms make sense. They are bound to be violated (as Whitehead wound up violating them) because they apply to a realm of human conduct that is biological, erratic and deeply mysterious. If Whitehead had volunteered her pregnancy as an act of generosity to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Baby M. - Emotions for Sale | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad Down and Out | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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