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...movie is sleeker, cannier, luckier -- and more disturbing. No wonder feminists have cried foul over Fatal Attraction: Alex is the '80s career woman as homicidal vamp. Says Marsha Kinder, a film professor at the University of Southern California: "In this film, it is not sexual repression that causes psychosis. It is sexual liberation. For men, Alex's sexuality is a succubus; it saps a man's strength. Fatal Attraction is also about how men fear women. Because in this movie women have the power, positively and negatively. When Alex hears Dan threaten her, she doesn't take it seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

They need not have worried. Despite its more modern styling, the new cab, which was introduced last month and is known as the Metrocab, is at least equal in comfort to the older models. It has a sleeker hood but is still clearly a taxi. Its color, of course, is black. MCW plans to produce 1,000 Metrocabs in 1987, or about half the number of traditional cabs that London Taxis International sells each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Just One More For the Road | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo toys, and it sure is sleeker than G.I. Joe. It is the kind of game that could turn into a phenomenon. Keep your head down, and, oh, yes, more of those batteries at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...touch. The pressure will increase as Ford's aerodynamic styling becomes more widely copied and thus less distinctive. Before long, Ford will have to come up with a suitably dramatic successor to the Tempo and Topaz, which have already started to look a bit stale in comparison with their sleeker cousins, the Taurus and Sable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Slimmed Way Down and Styled Up | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...Daimler-Benz offer was resisted for months by Claudius Dornier, 70, eldest of six family shareholders of the company that caught the world's attention in 1929 by building the largest airplane at that time, a twelve- engine flying boat. Dornier now builds sleeker craft, like the Alpha Jet for NATO. Pressured by the five other family members, Dornier finally consented, allowing Daimler-Benz to buy 68% of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers and Now: Defense By Mercedes | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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