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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, is the flag more important than any other American symbol? Or should the statute or amendment be expanded to protect all significant national symbols? What if protesters burned a model of the White House? Should that be a crime?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Few Symbol-Minded Questions | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

A careful, pragmatic politician, he seeks opinions, relies on advisers and likes to split the difference on difficult choices. An inside look at how this White House operates. -- The hostages are still a long way from home, but the bazaar is open. -- Do guns save more lives than they lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 8 AUGUST 21, 1989 | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Based on a real-life incident, Brian De Palma's Casualties of War, starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, performs a gritty diagnostic test on the national conscience.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 8 AUGUST 21, 1989 | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Why are we in Viet Nam? Again. At this late date. In the case of Casualties of War, there can be only one answer: for further diagnostic tests on the national conscience. For the story it tells, based on an incident first reported in The New Yorker by Daniel Lang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vice And Victims in Viet Nam | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Its surface realism notwithstanding, this movie must be read symbolically, especially since it is presented as a dream that overtakes Eriksson years later, when he encounters a young Oriental woman on a train who reminds him of the long-ago victim. In the dream, Meserve -- arrogant, competent, headlong (in short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vice And Victims in Viet Nam | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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