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...class. Finding no clear and honorable path to victory in the booby-trapped underbrush, some grunts focused their gunsights on their comrades. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army (NVA) were shadowy figures in this family tragedy; stage center, it was sibling riflery. Stone's achievement is to pound and hack this theme into a ripping yarn about a good man, an evil man and an Everyman -- a young, romanticized Oliver Stone -- suspended between them with his life and ideals in the balance. In vivid imagery and incendiary action, Stone's film asks of our soldiers, "Am I my brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...asks clients (including Ann-Margret and Robert Wagner) to take note of their troubles by keeping a diary detailing every bit of their daily food intake. At one session with Lee last month, Filmmaker Janna Gelfand, 26, read off the venial sins that had cost her an added pound, notably hors d'oeuvres at two cocktail parties. "You should have had a big bowl of vegetable soup before leaving your house," said Lee. Gelfand objected, "I had a tight dress on, and soup puffs out my tummy." Still, she has lost ten pounds and is enthusiastic about Lee's method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Weight Shrinks | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...finish, there's little subtlety in The End of the World With Symposium To Follow. Under glaring lights, actors hyper-project their lines. Buzzers and phones eerily ring out at startling volumes. At one point, the central character, playwright Michael Trent (Ken Howard), literally bangs a drum to pound his message across...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Playing With Armageddon | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

Students disagree over whether wings are a better deal than 'za. A two-pound order of the wings costs $4.85 and contains about 20 wings, while a 16-inch cheese pizza runs about $7.00 from Pizza Wheel and Pizza Ring, who also deliver to campus...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Late Night Munchies Never Tasted So Good | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...Jeffrey S. Levy '86, a first-year law student, says, "It's way too expensive. It's much more expensive than a couple of slices of pizza." Wings come in three basic sizes: a two-pound order costs $4.85, a four-pounder costs $9.30, and six pounds of chicken...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Late Night Munchies Never Tasted So Good | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

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