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...wife (Gong Li) are bankrupted, then branded as decadent curs. But the pestilence is not localized; every family suffers. In the '60s, doctors are locked up, leaving the hospitals in the control of those bullying incompetents, the Red Guards. All that keeps the country together is the stalwart heroism of millions of families like Fuqui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Red Plague | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...caught, you can always claim you were doing an homage. Director Roland Emmerich's chief honorees are the Indiana Jones and Star Wars sagas. In a prologue set in 1928, archaeologists in Egypt uncover a large metallic ring. Fifty years later, Daniel Jackson (James Spader), a nerdy but stalwart linguist, deciphers the ring's hieroglyphics. They suggest it was left behind centuries ago by supersmart aliens (oh, hi there, 2001). By twiddling a few dials, scientists set the ring humming, and Jackson and a quarrelsome combat team led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (a glum Kurt Russell) are transported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Indiana Jones, Space Linguist | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...weeks ago, after an easy primary, Romney was dead even with Kennedy, and the race had attracted national attention. The Republican party, soaring with the strong showing of GOP entrepreneur Romney, focused its fundraising on the race in an effort to defeat the liberal stalwart...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Kennedy's Punches Were Too Much for Romney's Glass Chin | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

...incumbent, a stalwart of '60s liberalism, believes the government can create program after program to fix problem after problem...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Neither Deserve Your Vote | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

...defense of the often violent tactics of the IRA, Adams quoted President John F. Kennedy '40 and reminded his audience of the United States' historically stalwart defense of the rights of the individual...

Author: By Margaret M. Ou, | Title: Adams Calls for One Ireland | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

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