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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freedom, in other words, is a case of divided loyalties, not only in its subject matter -- a nation at bitter war with itself -- but in its execution. For in trying to pay equal respect to the demands of truth and fiction, Safire strands his novel in a no-man's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case of Divided Loyalties FREEDOM | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

But when the time came for the speech Reagan didn't duck, and won't. He let the critics take their shots: "The old Reagan magic, the energy and passion are gone," said the dyspeptic conservative Richard Viguerie. "He should have had Ollie North write his speech, but instead he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Give Up: Reagan is apologetic, but still defiant | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

EXECUTION REVEALED. Of Fedor Fedorenko, 79, who in 1984 became the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the U.S. to the Soviet Union; in Simferopol, Soviet Crimea. Fedorenko was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for failing to report his service as a Treblinka concentration-camp guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 10, 1987 | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

Shrewd, grasping, rich old Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and his simpleton nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) covet their neighbor's land. Each has his reasons, but they are not good enough. Not enough, that is, to justify their terrible plot to force the decent, innocent newcomer known as Jean de Florette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time, Space and the Joy of Evil JEAN DE FLORETTE | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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