Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dirty Harry is no complainer. He is genial with strangers, patient with the press. And in a movie-mad country where the names of directors like Sydney Pollack and Carl Dreyer appear on the tiles of France's favorite TV game show, La Roue de la Fortune, Eastwood the auteur is an imposing ambassador for American star quality. It so happens that the film he brought to Cannes, which he directed but does not appear in, is no great shakes. It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never...
...apparently, does Raisa Gorbachev. For all the difference between her glamorous life-style and the drudgery endured by most Soviet women, the First Lady expresses attitudes that reflect popular aspirations. In a letter to TIME, she strikes a series of chords that show her to be in tune with her female compatriots. Selflessness. Self-sacrifice. Keepers of the hearth and home. From such broad themes, it is only a small step to the primary preoccupation: coping with life as it is, rather than dreaming how it might be. What does a woman want...
...This year's flavor is a gentle fantasy about body switching: the young and old changing places with supposedly comic results. But 18 Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son were more frantic than comic, and it remains for Big, the last out of the gate, to show that this season's gimmick was, by golly, also a good idea, one that should make Big one of the hits of the summer...
Once Hanks was hooked on acting, the result of a junior-college theater course, his path was fairly smooth. In 1980 he was chosen as the co-star of Bosom Buddies, a short-lived comedy about two young advertising copywriters. A year after the show was canceled in 1982, Hanks landed the part of an ordinary guy who falls in love with a mermaid. Before you could say Splash, he was a star...
...exactly a household name in the U.S., but she is a celebrity in Poland. French, Italian and Japanese viewers now wake up to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, while Australians fall asleep to the sound of Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of NBC's Today show -- at midnight. Marshall McLuhan's oft-cited 1967 declaration is finally coming to pass: "We now live in a global village . . . a simultaneous happening...