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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universal about him. And so do his family: the patiently loving wife, played with unsentimental fortitude by Kate Reid in a performance in its way as awesome as Hoffman's; the sons who are Willy bifurcated, with Biff (John Malkovich) inheriting the dreaming genes, Happy (Stephen Lang) the gift of delusory gab, but with both lacking their father's annealing fire. Miller has said that at its heart Salesman is "a love story between a man and his son, and in a crazy way between both of them and America." As the wounded party in that triangle, Malkovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rebirth of an American Dream | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

Labeling the new regulations as a major breakthrough. Serge Lang visiting professor of mathematics, said, "if words mean what they say, then this is truly the end of percentage of activity or effort reporting...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Government Rearranges Scientific Monitoring | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

...having your dad hit on her). Max boobytraps the professor's luncheon and watches the disastrous affair on a video monitor. As Max watches the professor propositioning Maggie to have sex with his new robot he is also watching a video-tape of the robot creation scene from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, while listening to an old blues tune called "Searchin' for My Love." This absurd overlapping of technology past and future with Max's discovery of the timeless facts of life lies at the core of the film's humor...

Author: By Thomas Reiss, | Title: Out of This World | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...Lang says that "whenever I've had to make the choice, I've reverted to mathematics." But chances are he will not stop the A-21 fight anytime soon. "I didn't go out looking for this trouble," he says. "They came looking for me, screwing up my environment...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Putting the Squeeze on Bureaucrats | 3/21/1984 | See Source »

...years ago Lang's first-year calculus students spent a semester compiling a file of their own, collecting outrageous quotes from the professor and distributing them on the last day of the course. The file, entitled "Quoted Out of Context," has Lang telling students...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Putting the Squeeze on Bureaucrats | 3/21/1984 | See Source »

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