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...that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again is as good an occupation as any. In fact, it's a pretty good career!" He will caress Linda and bully her and play M-O-T-H-E-R on the living room piano. He will be anything she desires: her son, her seducer, her salvation, her fatal fantasy. Pity this child? No. Pity instead the careless mother -- what she missed, what she lost when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adventures of A Career Kid TRACK 29 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Family Ties. Like The Wonder Years, Running on Empty is haunted by wraiths of the '60s. Like Family Ties' Alex Keaton, Danny is a decent kid with dreams that trouble his ex-rad mom and dad: Alex plans to be a yuppie Ivan Boesky; Danny wants to study piano at Juilliard. And like both these shows, the movie tiptoes away from political specifics to nestle in the capacious bosom of no-issue humanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All in The Post-'60s Family RUNNING ON EMPTY | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Doug is waiting the next day at his church, a low-slung building the size of a corner gas station, where there's an organ and a clunky, slightly out-of- tune piano. It's a Saturday. Several women are moving around in the kitchen; the small, bare chapel is deserted. Walter plays a quick phrase on the piano and sings the lyric faintly for Doug, and Doug (who does not read music) sends it booming back. Then again, with an altered stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Through the Gospel Grapevine | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

KEITH JARRETT TRIO: STILL LIVE (ECM). Ravishing standards like Come Rain or Come Shine and upbeat thrillers like Charlie Parker's Billie's Bounce: dazzling jazz piano from one of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 25, 1988 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

KEITH JARRETT: STILL LIVE (ECM). Ravishing standards like Come Rain or Come Shine and upbeat thrillers like Charlie Parker's Billie's Bounce: dazzling jazz piano from one of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 11, 1988 | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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