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Happily, though, there is a flip side to this golden oldie. When not focused on the goings on of Allen's mythical Brooklyn family, Radio Days settles into a likeable send-up of the socialite radio personalities who dominated the airwaves of the '30s and '40s, much as The Purple Rose of Cairo parodied the make-believe movie idols of the same period...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Woody Allen's New Deal | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...never forgets." When a former supporter, Homobono Adaza, went over to Enrile's camp, she not only stripped him of his $50,000-a-year position on the board of the San Miguel Corporation, a large state-controlled conglomerate, but replaced him with his archenemy Aquilino Pimentel. The flip side of her fidelity is inflexibility. "I have a long memory for people who have helped me," the President recently warned a group of subordinates, "but I have a longer memory for people who have stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Bruins could not stop Joslin of flip a shot past White, who recorded her second Ivy whitewash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icewomen Bomb Ivy Champ Brown, 6-0 | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

Serene. Instinctive. Visionary. Determined. Eternally optimistic. Such adjectives are regularly used to form a word picture of Ronald Reagan. They are all true, as far as they go. But each has a less sunny flip side, like a photographic negative of the bright, familiar image. Serene: intellectually $ passive. Instinctive: unreflective. Visionary: oblivious to troubling details. Determined: rigid. Optimistic: detached from reality and unwilling to wrestle with complex issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reagan Stays Out of Touch | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...flip side, the Crimson gave B.U. goalie Maria Dunn quite a workout, pummeling the injured senior with difficult shots. Despite giving up nine goals, Dunn played excellent defense and came up with 67 saves for the night...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Icewomen Tear Down Terriers, 9-0; Joslin Scores Four Goals for Crimson | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

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