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Wading into crowds, the Soviet President proved himself a master of street theater, improvising historical, philosophical and legalistic arguments as he pressed his appeal to Lithuanians to step back from their threatened breach with Moscow. When his entreaties met with smiles and shouts of "Bravo, Gorbachev!" he answered with poignant appeals. "My personal fate is linked to this choice," he reminded the crowds. When he read resistance in the faces of his listeners, he fumed and lectured, employing the Socratic method to grill his audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, Divorce? | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Last Emperor (1987). And, arguably, the last movie epic, for its hero is the prisoner of world events, not the shaper. With sumptuous visual intelligence, director Bernardo Bertolucci created a poignant tale about the last Emperor of China -- the poorest little rich boy in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of the Decade: Cinema | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Broadway Bound (1986). Jokemeister Neil Simon became a poignant and self- critical artist in a trilogy of which this final installment, the tale of his start in show business, was the darkest, most honest and best. The scene / of Simon dancing in the living room with his mother, encouraging her to recall the one glorious moment of a mostly lousy life, lingers and lingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of the Decade: Theater | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985). The 1980s finally gave Tyler the broad readership her talents deserve. Her tenth novel is a poignant portrait of a travel writer who caters to people who hate to travel. Behind this whimsical premise lies a tragedy (the death of a child) that is never played for easy irony or pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of the Decade: Books | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...film ends with a great shot. Blaze walks out of the state house where Earl's corpse lies, and the camera ascends to take in Long's old domain. Randy Newman's poignant song Louisiana 1927 -- a cracker's lament about a devastating flood -- reaches its apogee of symphonic paranoia with the line "They're tryin' to wash us away." Just then, the camera discovers the Mississippi roaring past, washing away Earl and his wily, wild, pre-TV tradition of Southern politics. What has happened down there is that the wind has changed, and for its last three minutes Blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time and the River | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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