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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is a setting where actors can live and breathe like real people, and the Bridges boys are better than fabulous in it -- Jeff not quite falling over the line into unredeemable cynicism, Beau never succumbing to the pull of moral blandness. Pfeiffer, who does her own singing, is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finally, A True Character Comedy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Lewis, who died in 1968, spent most of his life playing obscure New Orleans dance halls and parades until his "discovery" in the mid-'40s. Yet he had something that touched people all over the world. Wherever his records were available, young musicians strove to copy his sound. Woody first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Cute is the last thing Woody wants to be. Though he calls jazz his hobby, he pursues it with the utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

There is no doubt that hidden faults generate earthquakes. What remains controversial is how large such quakes might be. For the residents of Los Angeles, this is no academic argument. A quake under the center of the city would do far more damage than a tremor of the same size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shaking | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

The missionary spirit has always hovered over the U.S.'s relations with far- off, backward lands. In the mid-19th century, New England ministers went abroad to save souls. A century later, foreign aid technocrats preached the virtues of hydroelectric dams and other megaprojects. Now a new generation of globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening of Geopolitics | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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