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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the film has been touted as an instant classic, a more appropriate description would be classic trash. A combination of classically insipid action and acting, classically artificial scenery and classic melodrama, The Princess Bride represents pop art at its pop worst...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Refried Bride | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

Breakfasts will soon degenerate from the wholesome goodness of fresh cooked oatmeal into instant shots of sugar. Now that vending machines hold a future breakfast staple, one can only expect candy for breakfast, synthetic fruit for artificially sweetened hot cereal, and microwaveable concoctions of bagels, pork, eggs and grease. Then again, given the alternatives, Coke may actually be a cylinder of hope rising out of the vast wasteland created by breakfast pollutants. Burp...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Snap, Crackle and Pop | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

Depressed by dreary drapes and rugs? Drive- up decorators offer an instant overhaul. -- Swizzle sticks take on new pizazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...satirical sketches about our age of Television and the Short Attention Span. In an early sketch, Lou Jacobi plays a man who accidentally aims his remote control at himself and winds up on whatever program happens to be on his set. For the rest of the movie, an instant of television static, as if someone were changing channels, appears between each sketch...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

Years after Kate Lewis is kidnaped, Stephen, a successful children's book writer, recalls the instant and thinks he was vaguely aware of a figure in a dark coat, "the weakest suspicion brought to life by a desperate memory." The ache of Kate's loss is sustained throughout the book. She never returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbeats the Child in Time | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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