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It's the first day of 1984. Through bleary eyes, you tune into television, to be greeted by "Good morning, Mr. Orwell." Oh no, has the British author's dark and malevolent fable of total totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1984 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Movie musicals are the other historical touchstones: the grand ballroom turns of Astaire and the sidewalk acrobatics of Gene Kelly in essence. But in fact, and in direct lineage, nothing connects the video present with the movie past so directly as three films made in England. There were the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

It is not easy to draw a straight line between Lebanon and Grenada. Yet both President Reagan and his critics have managed the feat. For the President, what connects the two points is a malevolent Soviet presence that seeks to turn trouble into opportunity. For the critics it is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Ghosts (Or: Does History Repeat?) | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

This incident and four others in recent years have sparked the most systematic inquiry ever made into the legendary voodoo phenomenon of zombiism. According to Haitian belief, a zombie is an individual who has been "killed" and then raised from the dead by malevolent voodoo priests known as "bocors." Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zombies: Do They Exist? | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

At 34, Spielberg has tapped directly into the power source of youthful fantasies and produced two remarkable works of popular art. Poltergeist, which he supervised from original story to final cut, is a horror movie about malevolent spirits that infiltrate the home of an ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1982:Summer Magic E.T. and POLTERGEIST by Spielberg | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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