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...rest of the story, which is unfolded by flashing from one scene to the next at break-neck speed, is only slightly less confusing. With numerous cases of mistaken identity and plots within plots within plots, neither Charly nor the audience has the foggiest notion of what's going on much of the time. While director George Roy Hill is to be praised for his attempt to recreate the suspense of the novel, at times he would have done well to opt for a little less mystery and a little more clarity...

Author: By Mollv Chff, | Title: Terrorists in Love | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...reality and different conceptions of the presidency. It's incredible that two candidates can assert such marked differences on questions of historical fact. It's as if one were from Venus and one were from Mars. On Lebanon, Mondale's version was that the causes were mistaken U.S. policy, the procedures amounted to presidential bungling, and the effect was to embolden the terrorists. Reagan answered that the causes were mainly Lebanese, there was no lapse in procedures, and the effect has been to heighten security. Arms control, or lack thereof, the Administration attributed to Soviet intransigence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Points for Style and Substance | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...article led to what appears to be a running intellectual feud with Nozick, who in his 1974 book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" called Scanlon's theory "mistaken...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Tim Scanlon | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...exercise room, a sauna and tennis and racquetball courts. Even so, Rolm is not as informal as many other Silicon Valley firms, where jeans and open-necked shirts are in fashion. Rolm's senior executives and marketing managers normally wear business suits to work and could easily be mistaken for their counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Blue Aims to Get Bigger | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...transcriptions of Yom Kippur discourses that the Rav delivered in New York City over twelve years. Reviewing the earlier Hebrew edition of Repentance, Chicago's Reform rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf declared that Soloveitchik is "more and more obviously the teacher of the time. If I am not mistaken, people will still be reading him in a thousand years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Judaism's Man of Paradox | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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