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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runs along the razor's edge. While many observers claim that Sunday's presidential election can do little to alter the situation in the war-torn country, two decisive outcomes are possible: the vote could either pave the way toward an acceptable solution to the civil war onset into motion a series of forces destined to bring the beleaguered nation to ruin...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Fork in the Road | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

Four freshmen could also win a spot in the rotation. Lufty Chris Marchak places the ball well and has a smooth motion. Rightly, Mike Press has a strong fastball. Presz will be working relief in Florida, but Nahigian says it isn't necessarily permanent. Lefty Jim Chenevey has a knuckle curve that sinks faster than the Titanic. Righty George Serbara is also in the hunt...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batmen Set to Defend Eastern Title | 3/20/1984 | See Source »

...Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...District Court decision characterized it. When he comes home to watch the show, he can escape the repeated ads for Golden Hits of the '60s and gold-plated Ginzu knives just by a timely manipulation of the last-forward button on the VCR. As Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, says. "If you're an advertiser and suddenly the message you're paying millions of dollars for is being eliminated in maybe two thirds of the audience before it even has a chance to view it, then you're not going to pay as much...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Beaver vs. Disney | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

LASSITER IS A SLOW-MOTION Magnum P.I., in tweeds. This molasses-paced fashion adventure, about an American jewel thief in 1930's London tows actor Tom Selleck through an argyle-and-herringbone wardrobe, and climaxes in a turtleneck sequence featuring a diamond heist...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Trivialities | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

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