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...second mistake was to have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her angst always outshouts her charm. A third goof was to have Short start out really neurotic, as Richard Dreyfuss was in his Oscar-winning film portrayal, but turn into Caspar Milquetoast (or Ed Grimley) within minutes. The domestic frictions that made the film funny simply disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mishmash Of a Musical | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...group that has been mounting armed attacks in Israel and the occupied territories, had moved its command center to the U.S. While the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem is almost never as chummy as the two governments make it out to be, they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about the 415 Palestinians Israel declared to be fundamentalist leaders and deported to Lebanon. Washington has leaned hard on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to take all or some of them back. Israel responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas and The Heartland | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...raped her and ripped her stitches. Several times she tried to leave or get help. "I would have a bloody mouth and a swollen face. All the police would do is give me a card with a deputy's name on it and tell me it was a 'lovers' quarrel.' The battered women's shelter was full. All they could offer was a counselor on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'til Death Do Us Part | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...fellow vendor said that the company was just looking for reasons to quarrel with Kontoff. "He doesn't really bother anybody," said the vendor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It is sort of sad because his posters are positive...

Author: By Monica D. Watkins, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Vendor Protests Treatment | 1/6/1993 | See Source »

...even watching the film does not ensure an educational experience for Americans. Entertainment is entertainment. And Lee's movie, while a historical epic, is still entertainment--and it has to be, for there are many people who will quarrel with Lee's version of history...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: How Do You Learn If You Aren't in School? | 11/18/1992 | See Source »

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