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...podium as on the track, Lewis is a practiced performer. He even critiqued the inquiries. "That's a great question," he told a British journalist who asked him whether he was running for the money or rather, like Jesse Owens, to become a folk hero for mankind. "My objective," he answered forthrightly, "is to be the role model, not the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Carl Lewis: Man in the Eye of a Media Hurricane | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself with world peace as effectively and consistently." Let's not get carried away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Why We Play These Games | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...blow-job as a metaphoric image of mankind's embrace of the nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: A Working Man's Fellini | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...question is never truly answered, and, in with all great cinema, makes Bachelor Party strangely disquieting, for it raises more questions than it can answer. Does the final marriage scene imply that mankind is saying "I do" to his own self-destruction? Is the consummation of marriage really only an invitation an voyage to the magic mountain of moral turpitude? Or is it just having your chain yanked by the almighty...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: A Working Man's Fellini | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...aggressive forces of imperialism, primarily U.S. imperialism," the document charged. Ignoring the conciliatory tone of President Reagan's press conference, which had taken place twelve hours earlier, the statement went on to accuse Washington of an "escalation of the arms race" that "jeopardizes the very existence of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Hard Line | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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