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...events in Lebanon reveal hypocrisy and a lust for power. The Palestinians and Lebanese, betrayed by their own leaders as well as their Arab "brothers," are now facing a situation similar to that of the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s in Germany. As then, the world mouths pious rhetoric but does nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 12, 1983 | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...city of its sins, Angelo condemns to death a young gentleman, Claudio, for getting his finance, Juliet, with child. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads in vain for her brother's life. Angelo in return displays a lack of pity which proves all the more hidcous when his own unbridled lust is uncovered. In the end, Christian mercy and the "natural order" of life prevail over the "artificial" systems of government or morals...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Too Measured | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The combination of greed and blood lust is too much for this bad guy to handle; if one doesn't get him, the other will. And in the end, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...minus-five seconds, the crowds pressing behind us became too much to bear, and we surged towards the object of our frenzied lust...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Red on Crimson | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...sister Eileen (Lisa Gordon), and they both seem happy riding the merry-go-round and eating gobs of cotton candy. But it is a child's paradise, and all Dorothy's childish innocence and Paul's childish rages won't gain them entrance to it. Once they discover lust and the cars, pinball and games, and ultimately guns, they are lost. Suicide is not the ultimate act of self-absorption for Snider: he had disappeared into the vacuum of his own desires long before...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

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