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...best example of that genre made since the death of James Cain. Raising Arizonais a different sort of film altogether, a hyperkinetic comedy with a budget. But it still betrays a rabid obsession with movies, from its constant toying with technical effects to the incessant Gremlins--style stream of references to others movies. Some are obvious, while others are maddeningly oblique and occasionally the film degenerates into a mass Trivial Pursuit game. It's us against the Coens. They...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Coens Raise a Little Cain | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...will do everything we can to protect and improve parking near MGH," he said. "We also wanted to see if we could develop an income stream to help fill the cracks left by the federal government...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: MGH Proposes Group Venture | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

David Herbert Donald, a Harvard historian, attempts to revise that judgment by presenting an oversize, extravagantly gifted North Carolinian who tried bold Joycean experiments in stream of consciousness and attempted to rescue American writing from the expatriate Lost Generation in Europe. According to legend, Wolfe was saved from drowning in his own verbiage by Editor Maxwell Perkins, mentor of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. According to the biographer, Perkins and his colleagues distorted Wolfe's intentions and eviscerated his posthumous works beyond recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lit Abner LOOK HOMEWARD: A LIFE OF THOMAS WOLFE | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...sense, Warhol was to the art world what his buddy of the discos, Roy Cohn, was to law. Just as Cohn degraded the image of the legal profession while leaving no doubt about his own forensic brilliance, so Warhol released toxins of careerism, facetiousness and celebrity worship into the stream of American culture. He was the last artist whose cynicism could still perplex the art world, which may explain why -- even after he said that art was just another job -- people continued to scan his latest efforts for signs of "subversive" credentials. In fact, his work was no more subversive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Caterer of Repetition and Glut: Andy Warhol: 1928-1987 | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

What has hurt Mulroney the most has been a steady stream of scandals involving members of his government. Mulroney had barely taken office when then Defense Minister Robert Coates was forced to resign after an Ottawa newspaper revealed that he had visited a West German strip club and shared a drink with an "exotic dancer." Eight months later Mulroney's Fisheries Minister was forced out for allowing tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. Mulroney's Communications Minister resigned from the Cabinet while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police looked into irregularities in his campaign spending, then returned after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: How to Track a Plummeting Star | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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