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There she stands, Miss Black America. With her impeccable face, sleek figure and supernova smile, she looks like a Cosby kid made in heaven. She stirs sentiments not of lust but of protectiveness and awe; everybody around wants to adopt her, escort her or be her. And now this perfect creature picks up a microphone. Oh. You mean she sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...Even the departed Gary Hart was not spared. Instead of the Seven Dwarfs as a designation for the field, Biden noted, the seven deadly sins might be better. "I've got six of them covered -- greed, envy, anger, avarice, gluttony and sloth." Pause. "We've got an opening for lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jump Shots and Free Throws | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Issues passionate and human and difficult surge up against the Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American television cop show: there comes a moment of denouement when the detective, triumphant but sardonically obedient to the Miranda decision, snaps the cuffs on a suspect and growls, "You have the right to remain silent. You have the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...each character, and finally the audience, must cope with not only a desire for peace, but a lust for killing. What matters to Kubrick is the celebration of life, the soldiers' marvelling at their ability to kill or be killed...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: AT THE MOVIES | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

...story. And Schoelen is the most appealing teen in recent movies. But the triumph is O'Quinn's. With his a- mite-too-wide smile, unctuous pieties and neatly calibrated spasms of rage, he creates a paradigm head of the postnuclear family: an evangelist of father love and blood lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jun. 15, 1987 | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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