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If TV portrayed the Reagan of 1980 as something of a good-natured, perhaps not altogether innocuous former actor, the early TV in 1984 has made him seem nothing less than Liberty Leading the People. Yes, television duly noted, Reagan answered questions about as often as the heroine in Delacroix...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Opening Doors | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

Cat McCrystal is thus quashed in one of his many attempts to withdraw from his tenuous involvement in the Irish Republican Army. He is a mild-natured young man who falls into the organization's web by innocently doing a friend a favor and becomes a reluctant pawn. He is...

Author: By Mark Murray, | Title: Love Among the Ruins | 10/5/1984 | See Source »

When the troops began to call the townsfolk "Bennies" (after a good-natured but dim-witted character on a popular British soap opera), the islanders picked up the name, which they now use more often than the time-honored "Kelpers" (after the seaweed that they once harvested). Locals, in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: The High Price of Principle | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Before Director Ron Howard and his gargle of writers (Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman) arrange a satisfactorily romantic ending for their odd couple, they also manage to satirize everything from presidential politics to daytime television. They are a jostling, busily observant, funda mentally good-natured crew, and...

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

Most humor has a target, and no one (even a Martian) completely enjoys being the butt of a joke. But unless Americans come to terms with the realities of human nature and of life within a chromatic culture, they will simply stifle a rich source of national humor without promoting...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Loaded Terms | 3/15/1984 | See Source »

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