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A quiet young man named John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is a surprise guest at a dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such Fun Singing the Blahs | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

That radio continues to flourish more than three decades after it was supposedly doomed by television will come as a surprise only to those who confidently predict the demise of every old technology the minute a new one comes along. Although radio was forced into the background by TV during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Friendly Sounds in the Dark | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Suppose you wanted to stage a Broadway flop and were casting around for surefire bad ideas. What would you think of? Well, how about this: 15 mostly middle-aged and sometimes portly Argentines dancing the night away in that hoary old favorite, the tango. Add to that four singers declaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love Those Crazy Steps | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The answers were far from clear. In the confusion that followed the TV announcement, a U.S. official in Washington remarked that Marcos' decision had "taken everybody by surprise: us, the [Philippine] opposition, even his own inner circle."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: I'm Ready, I'm Ready | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

If any U.S. signal may have helped catalyze Marcos' latest surprise venture, it was a four-day visit to Manila last month by Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Laxalt held two meetings with the Philippine leader. At one of them, the U.S. legislator passed along a three-page letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: I'm Ready, I'm Ready | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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