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...seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier, and sillier than in any of his films since Arthur. Always a master of the "Mr. Sensitivity" roles, he has no difficulty making the case that if he doesn't get a son soon...

Author: By Cerus M. Sanai, | Title: Husband and Wives | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...cost companies $5000 less than Harvard's AMP, and it runs only once a year during the summer for only eight weeks. But Rinaldi says that some smaller corporations that can't afford to have their top workers away from the office for a long time prefer Stanford's shorter program...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Coming Back for More | 11/14/1984 | See Source »

...late sixties and seventies, the Soviets drastically reduced and may have eliminated the American margin...It seemed now that the Soviet Union might soon be in a position to rely on its own central, strategic forces to hold the U.S. in check while it used its conventional and shorter-range nuclear forces to subdue Western Europe...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Nuclear Shadow | 10/25/1984 | See Source »

Bricklin is pointing his latest venture at the same bargain-minded crowd that snapped up the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1960s. At 11 ft. 51½ in. in length, the Yugo is 3½ in. shorter than the Japanese-built Chevrolet Sprint, currently the smallest new car available in the U.S., and will cost $1,161 less. Likely customers: students and families who might otherwise buy a used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imports: One More for the Road | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Crimson (longer wavelengths) defeated the Big Red (shorter wavelengths), 2-0, and wish the victory raised its record...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Ohiri Field: A Big Red Graveyard | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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