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...believe that the plot is convoluted, savor this: Air Force One is hijacked by the National Liberation Front for America and crashes into Manhattan Island, which is now a penal colony, a sort of Devil's Island-on-the-Hudson. The President (Donald Pleasance) survives the crash only to be taken hostage by the prisoners. From their headquarters on Liberty Island (home of the Statue of...), the police hire an ex-military hero turned crook. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) to rescue the leader of the free world. He has 24 hours to make the rescue, because the Leader...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Take the A Train | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...that does not matter now. It is springtime. Indeed, it is one of the most special springtimes in memory, one that has offered astonishing achievements to savor-deeds both grand and humiliating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Playing Billyball | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once have been intended as a send-up of Jerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Riding High with Hard-Luck Guys | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

GOOD LUCK with the motivation behind City of Women, Federico Fellini's latest baroque-nightmare-cum-flesh-fantasy. Food for thought and conversation, perhaps, but it yields no neat, coherent conceptual summary--better just to sit back and savor...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

Will the Coop work to improve wages, benefits, or employment policies to respond to the widespread worker discontent that originally led many employees to ask for union representation? Or will the management take this opportunity to savor its victory and do nothing to improve its treatment of the workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Coop Election | 4/1/1981 | See Source »

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