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...Jeane Kirkpatrick's feelings are hurt. Poor little soul. I get the impression she could tramp over others without wincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1983 | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Charlie Chaplin did not invent the movies, but he might as well have. Coming out of the British music-hall tradition, he quickly taught everyone how comedy on film should be performed. His onscreen character, the Tramp, became an indelible image of the little guy enduring and prevailing in the face of every tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art and Its Rewards: Some Creators who Made News that Stayed News | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...merely to look at them was ecstasy. She lost her heart to one at twelve, when she first saw a neighbor's fierce new gelding running majestically through a meadow. Without quite realizing it, she also lost her heart to her companion that memorable day, a hard little tramp of 17 (Mickey Rooney), He stayed on in the village to work in her father's butcher shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1944: The New Pictures: NATIONAL VELVET | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Barbie doll grown up and gone bad. At 28, she has become the divine masochist of the French cinema, playing Truffaut's Adele H., or a woman who gives birth to a monster in Possession. This time Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean Becker 2 hr. 10 min. to exorcise. The movie stinks, but Adjani makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 18, 1983 | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...Tramp campaign has been so successful that it has created a new image for IBM. The firm has always been seen as efficient and reliable, but it has also been regarded as somewhat cold and aloof. The Tramp, with his ever present red rose, has given IBM a human face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Softening a Starchy Image | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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