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Hard, also, to remember a movie that has more authentically captured the fretfulness of a relationship where nothing is irredeemably wrong but nothing is terribly right. When, on location for her foolish film, Josepha decides to have a vengeful affair, her aim is to shake up, not necessarily break up, her marriage. But it turns out that the drift into separation is neither more nor less uncomfortable to endure than the tuggings and haulings of an old marriage. It does, at least, give everyone a new set of problems to think about, and the novelty is welcome. Josepha lacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love's Faces | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...energy question is really a question about economic growth and security, which in turn means it is a question about the future of Western society...The stakes are high enough, the uncertainties great enough, the effects persuasive enough that it would be foolish to close our eyes...." Daniel Yergin...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Energizing America | 9/23/1982 | See Source »

...added, "His tax cuts forcing high interest rates is part of a foolish macro policy." "One never knows if this will have any effect on the President, but we felt it was important to speak out," Musgrave said...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Ec Professor Sponsors Letter Criticizing Reagan | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...country and western guitarist, and not to regimens in other joints. "For a prison," he figures, "Leavenworth is all right. It's not at all like home, and nobody likes being here. But I believe this is as good as prison gets." Still, "you got all kinds of foolish people in here who do crazy things. There's lights on all the time. There's no such thing as quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...gruff, obstinate, foolish, flammable, superstitious, supercilious, boorish, brilliant, wonderful manager of the Baltimore Orioles still means to throw himself out of the game after this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From Raspberries to Tomatoes | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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