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Word: tad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jessica, played by Karen Allen, a young actress with a pretty, open face and a straightshooting manner that is extraordinarily winning. She is bright, wry, self-amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist, he is as active as he was passive in the ear lier film. One begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: History Test | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...only raised themselves in Specter's image, but played something he recognized: "Basic, honest, good rock 'n' roll. They get the feeling across." This set them apart from the pop mainstream for Spector, whose opinions about much of today's sound tend to be a tad prickly ("The Bee Gees produce porpoise music. It's interspecies communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Going After the Real Nuts | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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