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...order to restore its credibility, Khomeini's regime apparently felt it imperative to demonstrate anew its hatred of America. "It all was like waving a red flag in front of Iran," says Gary Sick, a former Carter Administration official and expert on Iran. "They had to respond, to redeem themselves both domestically and internationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War on All Fronts | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

However, last year the council debated a plan by which students could pick up a coupon at the checker's desk if they were going to miss a meal and then redeem it at one of the house grills or the independently-run Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center, Eisert says. "But the grills couldn't afford it--they barely break even as it is--and the Greenhouse would only offer $1 of credit," he adds...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Food Across the Ivy League | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that art's relation to mass media has become an aesthetic blind alley and that only an enhanced sense of the world's concreteness -- opposing the flimflam of manipulation that gets spun about it -- is likely to redeem the discourse of painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Random Bits from the Image Haze | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...have to ask, you are probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: You Gotta Be a Football Hero Wildcats | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...tears, and finally they all go on to victory over the undefeatable and evil enemy at the championship game. This movie has all that, and that's about it. While other movies using the same formula have succeeded however, because of either originality or inspiration, Wildcats offers little to redeem itself from mediocrity. Witty dialogue or impresssive football footage or maybe even a passionate love angle involving Hawn and one of her players--just about anything might have done...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Rocky Plays Football | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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