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...worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental death. No one is exactly happy that Leon is gone, but neither does anybody think it worthwhile to make a fuss over the manner of his departure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...former student of one of the most talented and inspiring professors at Harvard College, I was appalled to see such a fuss made over Professor James Q. Wilson's radar detector-a device which is not only legal in Massachusetts, but frequently used as well. A quick walk through any of the student parking lots in fact demonstrates that few undergraduates see anything wrong with owning such instruments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

What, then, is the fuss about? Why on issues such as the Nativity display and school prayer cannot the majority simply say, "Take it or leave it"? On the crèche issue, that is what the court decided it could say, though not without a lot of irrelevant hand wringing about the "passive symbolism" of the Nativity display as opposed to the "active symbolism," say, of the cross. (The distinction is meaningless.) In the matter of school prayer, the court continues to hold its ground, but why? And why not have an amendment allowing everyone to pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Whose Country Is It Anyway? | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...stop sign seems like a simple thing, but that doesn't mean a stop sign can't cause a fuss...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Conforming With Historic Architecture | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...Vitold). A repressed homosexual (and, more significantly, a repressed romantic), he cannot hold his true nature back when Edo, as he renames their prodigy, appears. What drives him mad is not open acknowledgment of his secret, but the boy's indifference to it. What's all the fuss, Edo sleepily wonders, about the central issue of his would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Music for High-Strung Instruments | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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