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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband Mickey (Woody Allen), none of the characters here can stake a claim to too much sympathy. Together they make up a collection of overgrown children. Hannah's husband Eliot (Michael Caine) longs for his wife's youngest sister (Barbara Hershey); her mother, an actress, is a boozy old flirt; her actor father is a vain failure, and rounding out this lot is Hannah's other sister, the cranky Holly (Diane Wiest...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: More Than a Movie | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...from the new order seem split in their allegiances. Many of the youngest of the new corps of Viet Nam's leaders are steadfast in their defense of the system. Still, something of their restlessness comes through. "I have to live very correctly," explains a young official. "I cannot flirt too much, and I must respect older people. I must be very popular, and I cannot have too many luxuries. If I don't like this driver"-- he motions to the man at the wheel--"I must talk to him anyway. I also must dress properly. We cannot have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam a Gathering of Ghosts | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...sardonic figure who sometimes talks like William F. Buckley in fatigues and beret: "Disappointing . . . is a distinctively English, meiotic expression." Wherever Oakes settles in, a pair of alluring hazel eyes cannot be far away. This time they are blinked by Catalina Urrutia, a Cuban translator, moralist and flirt. After the requisite tango, the CIA man and the beautiful bilinguist end up in the percales. Heavy breathing leads to weighty revelations, and the smitten Catalina shows Blackford her ultimate secret: four medium-range Soviet ballistic missiles hidden in the hinterland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fly on the Wall See You Later Alligator by William F. Buckley Jr. | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...film he directed from Alan Bennett's script, Schlesinger painted a wry, rueful portrait of the British spy--Guy Burgess, retired to Moscow--as a displaced person, isolated from his best friends and instincts. Chris Boyce (Timothy Hutton) feels isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten) is dithery, and Dad (Pat Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hardy Boys Turn Traitor the Falcon and the Snowman | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...purpose of test flights is to flirt with what pilots call the outer edge of the envelope, to push a plane to the limits of its capability and see what it can do. That is what one of the prototypes of the sleek plane was attempting over the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base in California last week when it plunged to the ground in a fiery crash. It was the first serious accident in 418 test flights of B-1 prototypes since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing Through the Envelope | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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