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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story, drawn from a real event in pre-World War I Britain, involves Ronnie (David Haller), a naval cadet who has been expelled for supposedly stealing a five-shilling money order. Convinced that his son is innocent, Arthur Winslow (Ralph Clanton) launches a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Edna's visionary dream is based on documented testimony. In his book Life After Life, Dr. Ralph Moody finds that such a pattern emerges from the statements of people who have glimpsed death and returned to life. Carefully staying within the realm of actual experience, the movie still generates a sense of the supernatural...

Author: By Jed S. Corman, | Title: Life After Movies | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

...actors frequently shout to be heard, which serves to exaggerate the difference in age between them and their roles. Ralph Zito turns the twisted, self-centered Serebriakov into a buoyant, strapping cartoon villain. When Vanya charges him with ruining his life in their third-act confrontation, Zito rushes across the platforms to the other side of the house, breathing heavily and staring over the audience like a character in melodrama who can't face the awful truth. But the horror of Serebriakov is that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: So Far Away | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

With animals now so popular on Madison Avenue, the inevitable has happened: they are organizing. California Trainer Ralph Heifer has formed the Animal Guild of America. The union's initial demand is that animals receive residuals, the fees that human actors earn each time their commercials appear on the air. At present they receive only one-time flat fees. If animals are not accorded equal rights, Heifer warns, a beastly nationwide strike may be in the offing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wags to Riches | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...firsthand how far some of these changes have gone and to hear of what might be in the offing, Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald led a number of Time Inc. editors on an eleven-day tour through four separate regions of China. The group included Editorial Director Ralph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: We Learned from Our Suffering | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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