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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bentkowski sums up the total effect of the section: "A photograph, being immediate and specific, theoretically cannot be an abstraction. But these pictures, combined with our visual memories of events from magazines, newspapers and TV, take on the power of abstraction. They tell, in capsule, the story of 1983, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 26, 1983 | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Considering that most of the movie takes place in a stygian cave, The Keep looks gorgeous. Slow motion and pixilation enhance the spooky mood; a telephoto lens turns the castle into a pointillist magic mountain. It is cinematic balm when a fantasy movie pays informed tribute to the decorative arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Santa's Mixed Bag of Celluloid | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

A post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Losing Big | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

The too close fit between the story and Poland's current convulsions actually presents the film's greatest problem. One has the nagging sense that the image on the screen is Gdansk or Warsaw, retracted by Wajda's lens to look to Paris. And rather than heightening the film's...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: Tale of Two Cities | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

Carol Ann Johnston, a third-year English Department graduate student was in her Perkins Hall apartment putting in a contact lens early yesterday morning when the mirror began to shake. At the exact same time across campus, Zoe Bercovitch '87 was doing homework in her Hollis bedroom when the walls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campus Rocked by Minor Earthquake | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

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