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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloistered Italian village of San Gimignano, bold Rosa (Anita Zagaria) is engaged to a town big shot but loves Danilo Lucca (Joseph Long). In a suicidal swoon, the lovers leap from the cathedral tower -- and land, in a flick of Tony Grisoni's supple narrative, in London's Italian quarter. Ten- year-old Eddie Lucca (Ian Hawkes) tells the story with a child's wily innocence as filtered through the memory of a wistful adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pigstruck | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...asked to autograph arms, legs and other parts of bikinied anatomies. "It's just outrageous how many girls go to these things," says Hanseth. "For some of the younger guys, it's like a sailor going into port." Male fans around the U.S. may soon have the chance to swoon over sweaty women. Thanks to the success of the A.V.P., some members of the fledgling Women's Beach Volleyball Association have asked attorney Armato to help them kick up their heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beach Volleyball Nets Big Bucks | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Once in a great while, an automaker creates a car that sends rivals into a + funk and motorists into a covetous swoon. Right now that vehicle is Mazda's new MX-5 Miata, a curvaceous, two-seat convertible that is intended to combine the look and feel of mid-century roadsters with the reliability of modern engineering. The first few thousand Miatas began arriving at Mazda dealerships earlier this month, and sold out instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing The Roadster | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

MARRIED TO THE MOB. The Mafia takes a ribbing in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a Mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

MARRIED TO THE MOB. Another brand of all-American capitalism, the Mafia, takes its licks in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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