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...take him off the road, but don't indulge his vanity with a scarlet letter...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Driving Them Off the Road? | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

Twenty years ago we had The Graduate in which a confused young man has an affair with the mother of the woman with whom he eventually elopes. Just two years ago we had Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love which turned The Scarlet Letter on its head and told us that adultery is a-okay...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: More Than a Movie | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Trying to avenge the loss they suffered against the Scarlet Knights in last week's tournament at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the spikers--now 1-4 overall--couldn't handle the experienced Rutgers team, falling...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Rutgers Spanks Spikers | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...based on a board game. It is certainly the first one to go into the theaters with three different endings. Good news for the makers of some future edition of Trivial Pursuit. The bad news for everyone else is that the colorfully named characters from Clue --Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock et al.--remain flat enough to be stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions, in which players are invited to solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 23, 1985 | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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