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...hostile reception he met from the fiercely proprietary Bayreuth musicians before his first Ring, he notes, "When you are attached to contemporary music, immediately they suppose you don't know the classic repertoire. But I think I can study a score very well, so I am not really inferior to people who have played the music 500 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pierre Boulez: The Soul of a New Machine | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...forgettable. In order to make this empty package appealing to the film consumer, Delta Force tries to play upon the basest of human emotions: revenge. Tired of being kicked around by nasty terrorists, Americans can finally see their boys fight back. As such, the film is nothing but an inferior version of Rambo II, in which our frustration about the Vietnam War was used and abused. But even Sylvester Stallone was able to come up with a remotely realistic story in which to insert the film's blind, patriotic manipulations...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: My Military Valentine | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

...director/producer Bud Yorkin's over-wrought anthology on divorce and middle America, is a movie that you've seen before. You won't remember where you've seen it, but you've seen it. Probably on late-night TV, after Letterman. Or possibly at the movies, for in an inferior sort of way, Twice in Lifetime will remind you of a diluted Kramer vs. Kramer (the male version of what happens to a family after divorce), An Unmarried Woman (the slightly fast woman with precocious child version), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (the strong, earth mother woman with normal...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...murderer who attempts a prison escape by hiding in a coffin about to be buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full hour), and the grisly ending packed a wallop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Out of the Series Straitjacket | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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