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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young American, possibly even the Hamptons and the New York Film Festival if everything went well and I played my cards right." This is meant to be satirical, I suppose, but it's so clumsily executed and so misses its easy targets that one really can't be sure...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: A Jerk In Manhattan | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...Hatch: That's okay, Judge Reinhold. I'm sure your answer would be Moses because he led his people to the Promised Land and that's just where you're going to take us, isn't it? But you can't take us to the Promised Land if you have to make a trillion zillion promises to a bunch of nosey senators along the way, now can you? Judge, you don't have to bother answering me until the end. I'm just going to ask you a series of asinine questions in an annoying, high-pitched whine...

Author: By Mathew A. Pinsker, | Title: Here Comes the Judge, Again | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

...alluring blond from parts unknown. She seems interested in him, so why won't she give him a little love bite? Because, as he realizes too late, he will end up with the world's most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts its dank characters on display rather than cadging sympathy for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...after Black Monday, Fidelity was fielding six calls a second. "Then it hit me: Why am I acting like this over mutual funds? They're not supposed to be exciting. They're supposed to be dull and safe." Though he did not sell, he is no longer sure his money is secure. Sighs Jayson: "The comfort factor is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of The Comfort Factor | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...authorities will respond, sometimes not. The beating of women and children will continue in the hidden boxes of apartments: evil, secret noise. You will hear the scream, and someone else will tell you that it wasn't a scream, it was a kettle whistle; and no one will be sure if there ever was a scream, until a body lies in evidence. How is the citizen-listener to react? Rush wildly through the corridors until the sound is unmistakable? Push open some stranger's door to confront some stranger's scream? Much courage is required for that. Much recklessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Screams From Somewhere Else | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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