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When the crucial vote was over, the House chamber broke into weary applause. Not great cheers, because few members were truly enthusiastic about the fiscal 1983 budget that lad finally been adopted. But Republicans were pleased that they had fulfilled President Reagan's plan to cut deeply into domestic spending while allowing for a defense buildup and a reduction in federal taxes. And many Democrats joined in the ovation, out of relief that the lingering issue had at last been resolved. The final tally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking the Budget Logjam | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...once by the physician at ringside. In the 90° desert heat, aggravated by the television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never before been required to answer a bell for a ninth round, displayed more stamina than even he expected. Afterward he admitted, "When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...this end, Grease 2 has assembled bloodless pastiches of 20-year-old pop music, reduced antique dance styles to their simplest components, ignored the authentic texture of language, manners and style except for their most obvious elements. The story is of the same cali ber: Michael, an English lad (Maxwell Caulfield), falls in love with Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer), leader of the T-Birds' hangers-on, the Pink Ladies. Her heart, however, does wheelies for him only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg. He does not reveal his true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teeny Bombers | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...homely as a turtle without its shell yet eventually proves as beautiful as an enchanted frog, must find a rescuer. And the rescuer must be a child, whose Galahad strength only E.T. and the moviegoer can immediately discern. The child is Elliott (Henry Thomas), a thin, quiet, wise-faced lad of ten who makes initial contact in a time-honored American fashion: by playing catch with a softball. With the help of his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton) and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), Elliott must battle the elements and some prying adults in a children's crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Wackford Squeers, the scurvy headmaster from Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, has trouble with enrollment-his students keep starving on him. He could use Clark Brandon, who plays high school apprentice to Barnard Hughes' Mr. Merlin (CBS, Wednesdays at 8 p.m.). Brandon is a comely lad-in the androgynous, Los Angelized tradition of former teen throbs like David Cassidy-but his character lacks character. Squeers' spartan regimen and unspared rod could provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Smutcoms, Enter Sweetcoms | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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