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It is the autumn of 1913, and as the war clouds gather over Europe, a cross section of the English nobility gathers at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a weekend's shoot. The symbolic correlation between the mass destruction of feathered innocents and the slaughter soon to ensue in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes the Shooting Party | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

While this gambit refreshes one basic convention, Fletch hews very closely to another. As Philip Marlowe and his heirs have delighted in showing us for the past half-century or so, corruption, especially in the greater Los Angeles area, knows no class distinctions. Start working on what looks like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Her childhood could have been written by Jane Austen. Agatha Miller, beloved by her parents and an older sister and brother, grew up in an English seaside village surrounded by Edwardian privileges and leisure. Her American father lived off a trust fund that dwindled steadily, and his death when Agatha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Adore Corpses and Stiffs AGATHA CHRISTIE: A BIOGRAPHY | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Dear Miss Manners:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honors: Bok in a Hard Place | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

The picture is not without incident. As World War I flickers through the Texas consciousness in newsreels and letters from the front, the people of Harrison wage a losing battle against influenza. Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Patter of Little Footes 1918 | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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