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Given such impedimenta, Morgan's quixotic search for his free spirit is the stuff of comedy, and Tyler plays much of his story just that way. Luckily, her hero is as amusing as he is misguided. He tells an opera story to a bedridden daughter: "Don Giovanni encounters a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rich Are Different | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Not completely. To some Republicans, not to mention independents and Democrats, Reagan's ideas sound less than compelling. Deep tax cuts could soon swell the inflationary federal deficit, and though all Republicans want to reduce the size of the Government, some doubt that it can or even should be slashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Rousing Return | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Cruising is unsatisfying as drama and disturbing as a sexual statement. Several brilliant moments of cinematic tension get lost in a rush of misguided, Puritan moralism. Pacino's shave in his final sequence connotes the removal of Cain's permanent scar or Hester Prynne's letter, as if homosexuality were...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Nights in Black Leather | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

COMPULSORY NON-MILITARY service is a misguided attempt to force-feed patriotism. Goals like "caring for the sick and the elderly" sound admirable on paper, but how would these programs actually work? How would nurses' unions react to this intrusion of essentially unpaid labor into their turf? How would construction...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Young Americans | 2/8/1980 | See Source »

National Political Correspondent John Stacks began covering the campaign of 1980 in September 1979. Despite that lead time, he frets, "I may not be able to travel with all the candidates before they cease to be candidates." He caught one with little time to spare, Republican Senator Larry Pressler of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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