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...four years ago, he thinks war is impossible to convey on film because "you can't see anything in actual combat. To do it right," he says, "you'd have to blind the audience with smoke, deafen them with noise, then shoot one of them in the shoulder to scare the rest to death. That would give the idea, but then not many people would come to the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Daisies from the Killing Ground | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...President had a scare Friday afternoon when, during a checkup, doctors found a tiny colonic polyp. It proved benign. Indeed, said a physician who examined him, Reagan is in "very exceptional" shape as the general election campaign approaches. The frenzied, fretful, fractious Democrats might well envy that tiptop appraisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wild Ride to the End | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

Continental is particularly vulnerable to scare stories because it has relatively few consumer clients. Most of its deposits come instead from institutional investors and brokers, who often take flight at the first hint of trouble, or imagined trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Runaway Rumor | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...major mission was to acknowledge one of Christianity's most strategic centers in Asia and to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Roman Catholicism in Korea. The influence of Christian churches in South Korea was evident on Sunday when, right after the "shooting" scare, the Pope presided over rites canonizing 103 martyrs, the first such group ceremony outside of Rome. The new saints were killed under 19th century monarchs of the Yi dynasty, who suppressed what was then a tiny, alien sect. The site of the canonization Mass, Seoul's Yoido Plaza, is usually reserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Papal Nod to a Christian Boom | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...Predetermines win with Reagan red scare and bosses' caucuses...

Author: By Henry Ratliff, | Title: Philosophy | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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