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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pierce Brosnan's James Bond-ish chase-on-top-of-a-moving-train for Diet Coke reportedly cost more than $1 million to film, and it was a disappointment. The commercial tries to cram too many tense moments into too few seconds. The viewer spends so much time trying to firgure out where Brosnan is--hanging off a train or clambering on top--that there is no time to get scared. And then it ends--with Brosnan sipping his soda happily ever after...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: ABC Wins Super Bowl | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Such are the tensions that animate The Color of Blood, Brian Moore's 16th novel. The setting here is the rather '60s-ish cold-war zone of Central Europe, an anonymously rainy, grainy place of black limousines and border checkpoints. But Moore's decidedly up-to-the-minute subject, invoking issues as topical as liberation theology and the Solidarity movement in Poland, is % the way in which a religious leader in a political world separates good causes from mixed motives. As Moore's protagonist, Cardinal Stephen Bem, asks an aide, "Are we filling the churches because we love God more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Crosses THE COLOR OF BLOOD | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...your brain needs something dim-ish...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Suite Dreams centers around the lives of two of these characters, one divorced and the other happily married until he checks into the hotel. Hannah Warren (Laurel Pescosolido) is a 30-ish journalist from New York who is in the midst of a fight with her ex-husband Billy (Brian McCabe), a hot-shot screenwriter. They each want custody of their 17-year-old daughter Jenny (Jennifer Harris), but she has other ideas about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Suite Dreams | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...dying for an article of clothing with that name on it. The Coop (1400 Mass. Ave.) sells a crimson Champion sweatshirt for $45 or a striped scarf for $25. A pair of Harvard booties at $8.50 will make the perfect gift for the baby in the family. Feeling Scrooge-ish? Buy a 29-cent Harvard pencil or a 90-cent bar of Harvard soap...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

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