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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis Feldman's script labors almost as hard to get Murphy to Tibet (where he must seek the abducted "Prince of Light") as it does to place him in conflict with Beelzebub's legions. But it makes little of the comic possibilities in the star's new screen situation. And Director Michael Ritchie, who can be a wonderfully cockeyed social commentator (Smile, The Survivors, Fletch), seems almost as lost as Murphy when he is back of the beyond. They are both men who need to plant their feet firmly in contemporary American reality if they are to deliver their punches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lost Star the Golden Child | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...small new shelter that opened last night at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., raises the number of emergency beds in Cambridge to 90, but this amount is still inadequate to house the average 200 homeless individuals who seek shelter in Cambridge each night, said James Stewart, a member of the Massachusetts Coalition for housing...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Many Homeless to Face Winter without Shelters | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

...return not to seek redemption, to try to rewrite my own saga, or simply to report another pair of hockey games...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A Lingering Feeling | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...outlined a simplistic and dangerous vision of higher education in which the job of universities was to impart narrow concepts of Western morality to their students. With his Dallas speech, he has gone a step further: he would also like to see college administrators actively enforce those values and seek to regulate the personal lives of their students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hypodermic Hype | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

Speakes, asked whether the White House agreed with Buchanan's contention that breaking the law might be justified, said of the Iranian controversy, "We don't seek to justify it, we seek to get the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White House Answers Buchanan Remarks | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

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