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...Crimson's editorial page parrot mainstream pundits' assessment of the Jackson campaign (Mike Hirschorn's "Jesse's Tattered Message," 4/21). Hirschorn's point of view is indistinguishable from that of the hack apparatchiks of the Democratic Party who have aggressively tailored their party for electoral mediocrity and made a candidacy like Jackson's not only inevitable but highly desirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Jackson | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...highly derivative and unoriginal quality of the film proves equally cumbersome in terms of dialogue. Hopper and Nicky parrot patriotic cliches about the war, stopping only once during the course of the movie--and then only briefly--to ponder the less glorified side of combat. When the film occasionally does try to explore the inner feelings of the characters--as in the father/son exchanges--gushy lines like "I'll bet she looks like a rose and smells as sweet," turn genuine sincerity into sappy sentimentality. We are only relieved that Hopper refrains from responding. "All's fair in love...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: No Casablanca | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...fashioned red popcorn cart, the kind you see at country fairs with pretty gold lettering on the sides. Jackson wants to show me the swimming pool. A wall behind it has four fountainheads carved like bearded Neptunes spouting water from puckered lips. A large mosaic of a parrot fills the wall behind the fountains. There is also a Jacuzzi bath. We walk along a brick path, lined with clusters of flowers, that leads to a bridge over a pond. The moonlight shines down on the two pairs of swans gliding on the water. One of the black swans lifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday. Middle-class marriage is the subject, and only her narrator is exotic in My Life As a West African Gray Parrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

Donald has his excuses for veering off into extremism. Getting fired is never easy to take. But when the boss has trained a parrot to squawk out the bad news, the experience is likely to be more than usually unnerving. And that is only the beginning. Treated rudely at the unemployment office, Donald cannot even have a bracing cup of coffee and a peaceful cry in the luncheonette across the street. For it is just then that a masked and seemingly psychopathic gunman (Jerry Reed) decides to hold up the place. With a little help from Sonny Paluso (Walter Matthau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beleaguered Sanity Toughs It Out | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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