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...Miami but never makes fun of it. He just stands off at an ironic distance, appreciating the blazing incongruity of an aquacade at a restaurant or a maimed thief pocketing his severed fingertips. The actors too come at their roles energetically, not condescendingly. Baldwin plays Junior with a goofy grin and the scheming intensity of a small mind spinning its wheels and getting nowhere. Ward finds Hoke's integrity down at his heels. And Leigh, a gifted chameleon who deserves stardom, can wring pathos just by reading a recipe for vinegar pie or walking up the path to a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cocktail With Rum and Cyanide | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Please forgive my rather rude attempt at bringing to your attention an error. The approach I took was uncalled for, and I am truly sorry." (Grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 23 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Your points are so overwhelmingly convincing and candid that I concede every point I made in my letter, and my faith in TIME is once again restored." (Big grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 23 1990 | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...door-to-door campaign through shantytowns and farm villages. Although a native of Peru, Fujimori benefited from Japan's reputation as the new economic superpower. On a political talk show he mentioned Vargas Llosa's claim that "he can get $1 billion from the Japanese," then added with a grin, "I ask myself, Why aren't they going to give it to Alberto Fujimori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Engulfed by the Tsunami | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...polished performances. Susannah Frith as Lucrezia is convincingly distraught over the moral dilemma in which her husband places her. Her conversion after her seduction is believable, but not overdone. Todd Lochner, the crooked friar who joins in the play's dirty deeds, puts on a deliciously wicked grin as he consorts with Ligurio and Callimaco "in the name...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Unjustified Machiavelli | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

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