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...certain amount of stolid dogmatism deadens the debate. The terms themselves - free trade and protectionism - have be come inert and somewhat pointless. The best approach is one of subtle, intelligent and infinitely imaginative flexibility. The U.S. has its responsibilities as the economic power of the world. But it can still negotiate and persuade and improvise in the cause of its enlightened, aggressive self-interest. ­By Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Protectionist Temptation | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

King, and Romero begin by using this format in a cleverly literal way. The film opens with a burst of dialogue breaking the stolid silence of some suburban Elm St. "I told you not to read this crap! Where did you get this shit?" an irate dad yells at his son cowering among toy monsters in the bedroom. The father snatches the latest issue of "Creepshow" from the boy's hands. The camera then focuses on the comic book as it lies in the front lawn garbage can, letting the wind-ruffled pages tell each story by segueing from animated...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: The Horror, The Horror | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...Congressional Medal of Honor. As a member of the human rights commission in Lincoln, his home town, Kerrey is remembered chiefly for his unsuccessful advocacy of a homosexual-rights ordinance. Moreover, Republican Charles Thone, 58, was the quintessential Nebraskan of his generation, prudently plain-spoken and a bit stolid. He had won four terms in Congress before becoming Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '82: Fresh Faces in the Mansion | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more righteous villagers are all too willing to play judge and executioner. Adultery is punished by eight months of bread and water; indiscreet lovemaking demands instant and bloody death. In this remorseless landscape, where the subtlest smile on a stolid face can seem an act of anarchy, each prisoner must find fulfillment by pursuing his dark destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DPs | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...most "message" movies, the true ideological enemy is nuance. Plot is reduced to polemic; characters become walking placards of good or evil; emotional shading is obscured by stolid or hammy acting; the mise en scène angles each shot like a schoolroom pointer. Moonlighting undercuts the genre's stylistic totalitarianism with deadpan comedy, and reveals its message through vignettes, moods, gestures, faces. Jeremy Irons' dour, handsome face suggests the first strokes of a political cartoon from an East European underground newspaper. Nowak is the story's narrator, its star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Polish Yoke | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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