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...serial monogamy; this time, for reasons of plot and propriety, he's a one-gal guy. Dalton performed a lot of his own stunts, and he looks great in a tuxedo -- especially the one with the Velcro lapels that fold over to give him the guise of a priest-assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bond Keeps Up His Silver Streak | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...Catholic priest serving a nine-month sentence for protesting the training of contras in the U.S. It saddens and angers me to see North and Admiral John Poindexter wrap themselves in the U.S. flag and call a wrong right and a lie truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Capitol Hearings | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...gamble in his nine years as President. The accord has angered his party and strained the loyalty of the 45,000-strong armed forces. The opposition parties and Buddhist monks, who are an influential force in Sinhalese society, were in the vanguard of the demonstrations. Said Madihe Pannanseeha, chief priest of the Amarapura Chapter of Buddhists: "India's aim is the total subjugation of Sri Lanka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If This Is Peace . . . | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...range in age from 27 to 16. Linda is as outgoing as John is reserved. "On personality tests we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum," says she. After their children started leaving home in 1980, Linda began studying for the ministry. She was ordained an Episcopal priest last December, and is associate pastor of a church in Gaithersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, the Most Important Witness? | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...creature arrived in the ursine form of Maurice Pialat, critically the most revered, personally the most reviled, of France's movie auteurs. A few days before, he had shown his new movie, Under the Sun of Satan, a stately adaptation of the Georges Bernanos novel about a self-torturing priest (Gerard Depardieu); its directorial style fell somewhere between rigor and rigor mortis. And now Yves Montand, president of this year's festival jury, was announcing the award of the Palme d'Or to Pialat's dour drama -- the first local product to grab the top prize since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Assault of The Movie Cannibals | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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