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Is the flashy new city hall a space vehicle that has crashed in a deserted spot, or a civic control ship about to take off? The populace is divided on that. But even the gloomy ones are surprisingly good-natured as they grumble. For in Fresno even root-canal work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close-Up: Two Boom Towns Fresno the Last Real California | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

As Joey, Murph's sidekick, Fish shows how easily a good-natured underdog can lose control and become a vicious aggressor. After terrorizing Gupta, Joey screams, "It's only a game," hoping that saying the statement loud enough will make it true. We see his frustration and passivity as he...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: Much More Than a Western Flick | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

That morning Olga said, "Anatoli Sergeyevich, why are you sitting in your study all the time? Let's go swimming. The bodyguards can't walk out to the water, but they won't stop you. We won't be allowed to go without you." So Olga, Larissa (a nurse) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Four Desperate Days | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Such a Long Journey follows the daily life of one Gustad Noble, a decent, good-natured Zoroastrian living in Bombay during the early 1970s. At home, he is caught up in the feuds and conspiracies of apartment buildings everywhere. At work, he enjoys the rowdy camaraderie of his Zoroastrian friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Quarters: SUCH A LONG JOURNEY by Rohinton Mistry | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

Dances with Wolves -- it is the name the Sioux give Dunbar -- is a movie that is very easy to make fun of, and not merely because of Dunbar's risible ahistoricism. It would be nice, for instance, to meet some white man, other than Dunbar, who is not a brutish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Riding To Redemption Ridge | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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