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Not only is the plot hackneyed, so are most of the characters, ranging from the affable old lady (that smiles benevolently throughout the whole movie like a catatonic overgrown Cabbage Patch doll) to the good natured town drunk/basketball maven, played by Dennis Hopper. While certainly a change from his role...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

The visiting Americans and their hosts engaged in good-natured sparring throughout the week. Spotting Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was Reagan's outspoken United Nations Ambassador until 1985, a top Soviet propaganda official boomed: "You have said very many critical things about us. Let us discuss them." Gorbachev was courtly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Travelers to a Changing Land | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

The Washington scandal does not yet have a memorable name, but it does have a face. It is a boyishly all-American face, the clear-eyed, clean-cut face that might be that of the second leading man in a 1940s war movie -- the intensely earnest but good-natured copilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North: Others In History's Spotlight | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

But what about the Yalies? How did they get their tickets? Where will they be sitting? In which direction should we scream our good-natured obscenities?

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Filling the Stadium | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

No one could keep track of all the couples who had met and married at the G, but everyone knew one of the reasons for the blossoming romances: the Tattler, the house newspaper that treated everyone as an enticement. When Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler visited what he called "Disneyland with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: in New York: Simon Says Condo | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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