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...watch for red-tag sales at the PX. "We used to say, 'Come to Europe and broaden your horizons,' " says Major Dennis Pinkham, a public-affairs officer at European Command. "Now that word is out that things are tough, that's kind of a bitter pill to swallow." With many economists predicting even harder times ahead for the shrunken dollar, the pill is most easily washed down with cut-rate beer in the barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See The World - and Pinch Pfennigs | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

There are times when history fails Bertolucci, imposing on his story Pu Yi's conscious collaboration with the Japanese -- a great black hole, morally and politically obscure, that threatens to swallow up the movie. Yet the director's eye remains preternaturally alert. He almost redeems the film's long middle passage with a scene showing the Emperor crooning Am I Blue? for his courtiers in exile. And the film's concluding sequence, so clear, so inevitable, should not be spoiled by discussion. Very simply, Bertolucci has found an elegance of design and execution that few of his contemporaries could even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Free Fall Through History THE LAST EMPEROR | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...anyone who watched a humbled Reagan introduce him to the country last week can't believe that the president was happy with the nomination. Battered, bruised and beaten by the Bork and Ginsburg fiascos, the Administration's right-flank--which, strangely enough, includes the President--has been forced to swallow its ideological pride and promise to support for the Court a nominee with whom they clearly are not enamored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A True Conservative | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

Hardest to swallow is the unrelieved bitterness and rage against men expressed throughout the report's pages. Women and Love so resonates with angry voices that the volume fairly vibrates in one's hand. Charges one of Hite's women: "Every man you meet still tries to hump you every way he can. It's about time we humped them back." Blasts another: "Men think they are so mature, but deep down they are such babies. They expect to be catered to. They whine and complain about everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Off, Buddy | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...glut of recent advertising campaigns touts the benefits of "real food," but nutritionists find many of them difficult to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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