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...conversation with a client, Inman-Ebel picks out target sounds to change: "We identify every single word that labels you as Southern, and you're going to practice them inside out and upside down till you correct them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...that shirks issues and shrugs off anything more serious than having a good time. Major American talent like Bruce Springsteen often carries a big thematic stick, but Britpoppers wield a club -- a nightclub where the solipsism of Thatcher's England is chilled out, prettied up and danced to till dawn. If you have the world's weight on your shoulders, after all, you can't shake your booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes for The New Ice Age | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...calendar were changed to push finals before Christmas break, those luscious weeks of September, when the crowds have left the Cape, the Vineyard, Nantucket and the Hamptons would be pushed out of the lives of the faculty. In addition many faculty members have vacation from mid-December till February under the current calendar. Putting finals before Christmas would erase this six-week, hiatus, and although certainly not all faculty members are of the "January-in-the-Caribbean" set, all of them are of the "Let's-dream-about-doing the Netherlands-Antilles-next-winter-maybe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Those Evil January-in-the-Caribbean Profs | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become the Perry Como of action-movie stars, never wasting a motion or spending emotion. As written by Dennis Shryack and Michael Blodgett and directed by Jerry London, Rent-a-Cop rarely rouses itself beyond cliche; it looks content to mark time till it hits the less demanding venue of pay cable. This is the kind of no-frills, no-surprises movie that a box-office champ could coast on, but that greases an ex-champ's skids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...Cher, rag-dolled up in heavy Sicilian eyebrows, relaxes into her most engaging movie role. And Cage has a great time segueing from Stanley Kowalski, absentmindedly scratching himself with his prosthesis, into a Brooklyn Barrymore. Moonstruck proves there is life in movie comedy yet. Enough, at least, to survive till next Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Return of Comedy as King | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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