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...Boris Becker in a tough match that was settled by a 10-8 tiebreaker. It is a measure of McEnroe's enduring popularity, however, that 100 reporters and 40 photographers showed up to cover the Volvo, traditionally a sleepy tournament that attracts little attention. Win or lose, polite or rude, John McEnroe still fascinates. S.C.M...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1986 | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...often treated the U.S. Navy -- and its rules -- with contempt. He ignored orders he did not like, wore his uniform sparingly and preferred bluntness to civility. Still, he survived in the service for more than 63 years, longer than any other officer in U.S. naval history. Adjectives -- brilliant, egotistic, rude, unorthodox -- clung to Rickover like barnacles to boats. Yet it was the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.) Rickover who first grasped the potential of nuclear power at sea and who tugged and cajoled a reluctant Navy to develop and install reactors in submarines. Today "the silent service" fostered by Rickover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyman George Rickover: 1900-1986: They Broke the Mold | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Hoskins plays this dear wet simp with a rude winsomeness. Tyson (Cicely's niece) finds dignity and pathos in a whore's hauteur. As the gang lord, Michael Caine exudes satiny menace. And Director Neil Jordan (who wrote the + script with David Leland) tells the story from George's point of view while filming it in a style as fancy and knowing as Simone's. No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Everything New Is Old Again | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

Prince is all over this film, running around in clothes that are somewhere between 13th century Paris fashion and New York new wave chic. Prince is lewd, rude and constantly coy with the audience and the camera...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: A Sweet Cherry Moon | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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