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...real crowd-pleaser is Spike Lee himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: You've Gotta See It | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

Anonymous pain vs. heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair of American Islands | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...topped by five soaring fiber-glass sails and looks a little like an 18th century man-of-war striding into the wind. Get into line--the first, alas, of many at Expo--for two informative and blissfully short movies about the host ; country. Next comes a never failing crowd pleaser, a 3-D extravaganza that among other things, sends a train roaring out into the audience. Then something even more inventive, Director Emil Radok's multi-imaged story of the evolution of communication, ingeniously told on nine interconnected screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Canada Puts on a Fair That's Fun | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free unions and a real civil service, we will hold elections, starting with sheriff. If the base is not solid, you cannot build on it." His philosophy of slow, sure progress in restoring Haiti's institutions may not be a crowd pleaser, but if consistently and fairly applied, it may be just the medicine that the ailing country needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Papa Jere | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

There were two kegs present at the Harvard men's tennis match against Columbia at Soldiers Field courts yesterday, each a crowd pleaser...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Netmen Pound Columbia, Avenge 1984 Loss, 7-2 | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

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