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...sounding like Perry Como. In fact, this song is so pathetically and limply delivered that it can't even be savored as good camp. "Drei Mann in doppelbett," on the other hand, links a pub chant with a synthopop rhythm with slightly more successful results. Nevertheless, neither the hook nor the rhythm of this song is good enough to warrant its redundancy...

Author: By Marek D. Waldow, | Title: Tutti-Frutti | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

Despite the convenience, home banking is still running into some serious customer resistance. Many consumers seem reluctant to buy the machines to hook up to the central computer systems unless they can find other uses for them. Viewtron's Sceptre terminal, for example, is available during the Florida introduction for $600 but later will cost $900. For the same money, customers can buy a home computer that can do more complex tasks like word processing. Moreover, after the initial expense, Viewtron customers pay a basic fee of $12 a month plus a $1-an-hour charge to the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armchair Banking and Investing | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...along with Kung Fu industry: visiting a "chicken farm," where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Faraway Place | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

What's more, the decision serves Soviet interests by giving Gromyko an excuse to get himself off the hook. Gromyko wanted nothing less than to be subjected to a barrage of criticism from the assembled delegates at the United Nations, especially after his hostile reception at the Madrid Conference a week earlier...

Author: By Claude D. Convisser, | Title: Gambling With Prestige | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...different rules, but we should take this into account in our dealings with them. And we most certainly should not fall for Soviet propaganda designed not so much to fool westerners, but to keep their own citizens wholly misinformed. That Mr. Louis and others have fallen for it hook, line and sinker is not testament to Soviet cunning, but to the incredible aptitude for self-delusion that is so apparent among unilateral disarmers. Eric Stockel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KAL 007 | 9/30/1983 | See Source »

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