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...family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled on the late Carlo Gambino and his Mob-have never even "been beyond Brooklyn or Vegas"; they do not read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heel over Head | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...movie business flourishes in China. On a ten-day State Department-sponsored visit to Peking, Shanghai and Canton, Hollywood Veteran Kirk Douglas, 63, found that interest runs high-even in his own old swashbucklers. He screened three of his pictures (Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Lust for Life) for small but enthusiastic audiences. Douglas also took a meeting with the cast of Teahouse, an epic film currently under production. "Let's not waste any time," said Douglas to Wang Yang, head of the Peking Film Studio. "We have everything we need to make a movie together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 29, 1982 | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...profanity served in a direct, fast-moving narrative. Still, Dunne may be on to something. In an age of soft-core TV, it is not hard to imagine John ("Dutch") Shea Jr. as the king of the bedtime talk shows, filling the night with tales of greed and lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mortal Sins | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede... St. Augustine's City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Special-interest partisans. These are flakes who grew up. They're proud that they read the papers and know every battle of the Vietnam War but are mature enough to admit their lust for the trend-setter bunnies. Not that they get anywhere with the fast crowd. No, they must still alone for their occasional outbursts of sarcasm or their lingering interest in science fiction. Predominantly male (but including a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf), the special-interest partisans are the hope and promise of their generation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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