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From the steamy promotional material to the film's none too subtle previews, Impulse would appear to possess all the necessary credentials to qualify as a low-budget fleshbath. Yet from its outset, the film works to counter that temptation. In fact, with the exception of one brief sex scene, ironically distinguished by its lack of nudity, sex is essentially absent from this film...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Taking the Lid Off the Id | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...novel seems to be building toward a contemporary inversion of the Oedipus myth, in which the father would possess the son's bride. That impression is heightened by the best and perhaps most autobiographical scenes, as the narrator recalls a childhood of willful rudeness and neglect by his father, accompanied by pitiable flirtation from his mother. Yet just when Arlen, working through the accumulation of small, freighted moments, reaches an apparent climax, the ruminative and wistful tone turns frantic. In the culmination of a night of frenzied incident, the father is shot and gravely wounded by a romantic rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battleground | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...five months after his sensationally publicized trial began, renegade Auto Manufacturer John Zachary De Lorean, 59, his hands clasped in front of him as he leaned back in a beige swivel chair, heard a jury of six men and six women declare him not guilty of conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine. "Praise the Lord," proclaimed the born-again defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stingers Get Stung | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...arms talks in Geneva last fall. But the Soviets, McFarlane said, then further hardened their position, trying to set "preconditions" for the Vienna negotiations. Among them was an insistence that the U.S. agree in advance to a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite systems. The Soviets already possess such a system; the U.S. does not. According to McFarlane, such prior commitment to a moratorium would in effect "prejudge" the outcome of the talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spaced Out | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...York underground, has been getting some new sensations. These sensations may be old hat to normal people, but for Reed, the acceptance of life as it comes and the discovery of simple, everyday pleasures are two feelings to which he has never quite achieved. His struggle to fully possess these sensations--without succumbing to destructive side effects like alcoholism or worrying about over-whelming outside forces--gave his former albums, The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts, their tension and energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unstable Universe | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

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