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At first Michael is pleased to have his crimson career behind him. When Vincent Mancini (Andy Garcia), the bastard son of Michael's brother Sonny, shows up ready to bite the ear off any idle Mafioso, Michael tells him, "I don't need tough guys. I need more lawyers." But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schemes And Dreams for Christmas | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

What accounted for this latest display of Oval Office policy juggling? One ingredient is the ongoing conflict between the "kinder, gentler" President Bush, outwardly sympathetic to society's disadvantaged, and the ruthless Candidate Bush, willing to exploit atavistic emotions to gain votes. Another factor is the slippery nature of racial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing The Waters on Race | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Soldier, politician and poet, Hussain Mohammad Ershad is a man who has taken pride in his sense of balance. For almost nine years he managed to maintain his footing in the notoriously slippery ground of Bangladesh politics. Last week, however, the President ran out of ground to stand on. Resigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh The Dictator Is Gone! | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

But not even Whitesnake should be kept away from the public. How far down the slippery slope of paternalism will MTV travel? Since when does MTV claim to be the protector of public morality? After all, Allan Bloom has long maintained that MTV concists of "hymns to onanism and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MTV, Don't Preach | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

You are a reasonably healthy citizen of this world, used to going your own way and having your own way. Suddenly an accident immobilizes you in bed. There is almost nothing you can do for yourself. All of us have at least briefly tasted the anxiety of this situation, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Deadly Game of Nursing Care | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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