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Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

The subject matter of The Mikado remains as pertinent today as a century ago. Crooked politicos and covert dealing abound. Ko-Ko (Steve Mooradian), sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Turning Japanese | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

Ko-Ko's delightful distress with his new-found rank is capably contrasted by Pooh-Bah's ridiculous revelling in his. "Born sneering," Bamberger struts, nose in the air, squeamishly shrinking from the touch of commoners ("Lower than the rank of stockbroker"), except when money is in the commoner's...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Turning Japanese | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

But what truly distinguishes this film is Parker's acute reimagining of a time and place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fire in the South MISSISSIPPI BURNING | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

The dark side of William Buckley may be Morton Downey Jr., a sneering mud wrestler who runs a nightly talk show out of New Jersey. That, of course, is not journalism. But otherwise respectable reporters and commentators come close sometimes to the circus form of opinion slinging. Consider the McLaughlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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