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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Irina, played by stunning newcomer Joanna Pacula. Resembling Natassia Kinski with her East European sultry good looks, Pacula proves as good an actress as she is beautiful. Irina, a young Siberian woman who desperately wants to leave Russia, was friends with the three murdered victims. Pacula inculcates a quiet desperation in her Irina, who against her will falls in love with the inquisitive Renko. She monopolizes the screen with her strikingly passionate Irina, and the love scene with Hurt stuns us with its erotic passion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chilling Trip | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

...Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation of the spacemen rose. Snapped Mission Specialist Bob Parker: "I think you might be quiet until we get one or the other [experiment] done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Half a Dozen Guinea in Orbit | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Over the past ten years, the treatment of insulin-dependent, or Type I,* diabetes has undergone a quiet revolution. D.S.C.P. is one of several programs that have sprung up around the country to spread the gospel of this movement. Its watchword is tight control, or keeping a close rein on the disease so that the body can function as normally as possible at all times. In practice, this means a lot of hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diabetics' New Gospel of Control | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...Britain and is a perennial contender for the Nobel. Naipaul, the chronicler of the Third World, is on assignment for the London Sunday Times. He and Thompson are unlikely friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says. "He's sane and has a crazy sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When War Winds Down | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...says. "It sounded like caps at first. Then there was smoke. We all hit the dirt. Both teams were face down around the 12-yd. line. The stands emptied. People were screaming. Babies were getting stepped on. Just as in the movie Black Sunday." Nebraska struck Rozier as a quiet place to play football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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