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On the first anniversary of the Duvaliers' departure, Haitians stayed off the streets, a pointed gesture of frustration that contrasted starkly with the exuberant dancing of a year ago. Today, the mood is a potentially explosive mix of bitterness, disappointment and rage. "It is worse now because we were expecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti; Limping Toward Democracy | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Dye created his consultancy, Warriors Inc., in 1985 out of distaste for what he considered the metaphorical rambling of such films as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and for the revenge fantasies of the Rambo genre. Not only was the drama phony (soldiers surfing through an artillery attack in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: How the War Was Won | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Earlier that evening the three black men, Michael Griffith, 23, Cedric Sandiford, 36, and Timothy Grimes, 18, along with Griffith's cousin Curtis Sylvester, 20, had left the Griffith home in Brooklyn. They later told police they had gone to Far Rockaway in Queens to pick up Griffith's paycheck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Vs. White in Howard Beach | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

The soaring success of Top Gun is typical of the shrewd marketing methods Mancuso had championed at Paramount even before he took over as chairman. Top Gun was originally scheduled to open in late May, at the same time as Warner's Sylvester Stallone shoot-'em-up Cobra and MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Mancuso: Hollywood's Top Gun | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

MILLIONS WATCHED when a tuxedoed Sylvester Stallone came to the Hasty Pudding last February to guzzle eggs, mumble platitudes and skulk off with Harvard's most crass theatrical prize.

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: John Avildsen: | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

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