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...Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will be his mother, if -- big if -- he can deflect her crush on him toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes Doonesbury Vs. v Sinatra | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...brainstorming is the burgeoning number of occasions for which greetings are available. Card buyers can now congratulate a friend on getting a driver's license, buying a new car or completing a successful diet. Customers can use cards to announce a divorce, propose a tryst or console a pal whose pet dog has died. Carrying that marketing strategy to an extreme, California Dreamers, a Chicago company, has put out an all-purpose Generic Greeting Card. The message: "Whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings, One and All! | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...hard to know. He's a pal of Jesse Helms, and Jesse Helms has suggested that the news he sees on CBS is not news that pleases him. I have a hunch that I understand what kind of news would please him, and I'm sure that I would not want to work for that kind of a news operation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 45 Minutes With Mike Wallace | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...Central America, a socialist organization that publishes a newsletter, Central America Alert, and tries to unite its cause with those of antinuclear, civil rights and feminist operations. Another group, called Madre, the Spanish word for "mother," pairs U.S. day-care centers with schools in Nicaragua, setting up pen-pal relationships between the children. Meanwhile, American parents and teachers send money and medical supplies to their Nicaraguan counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for Hearts and Minds | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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