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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike other stars, who cut a certain profile and hold on to it for years through variations of the same film--Bogart, Gable, Redford, Eastwood--Nicholson strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...destroy ten other things when they are not looking." The stocky union leader also revealed his secret for holding up under the pressures of his position: "Life is so hard and complicated that one must try to smile even in the toughest moments. For me, I just grin and bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Shaky Command for the General | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan, at 70, looks healthier than he did before his election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President Flexes His Muscles | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts with a shy grin: "Sometimes it's so shallow your ulcers start chewing each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Postdated | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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