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At this point, readers who have not seen Platoon are excused for the next two paragraphs. The others, the grizzled vets, can ponder Chris' motives and actions at the film's climax. He believes (and we know) that Barnes has killed Elias in the jungle. He has already considered taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Vampires, werewolves and other monsters, the stuff of legends, fascinate her. That is because these creatures represent an already well-developed mythology. Carter's references to these symbols accomplish what fairy tales usually accomplish--a disturbance of the unconscious through manipulation of imagery with which readers already have strong associations...

Author: By Lyn DI Iorio, | Title: Of Feminists and Fairy Tales | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

So wrap Spacewarp, settle down with another eggnog and consider the bounty under the tree. The regenerating myths of toys may have as many classical permutations as the collective unconscious, but the listings in most contemporary toy catalogs can be reduced to three basics. Spacewarp, for example, falls into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

One may perhaps connect this yearning for stabilization with Van Gogh's fear of his own ailment, whatever it was (epilepsy complicated by syphilis is a likely guess). It is as though the calmer color, the growing penchant for structuring his work as a process of sequential research into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

To be sure, whenever the grave and lovely Rae Dawn Chong appears as Sarah, the young black woman Mark falls in love with, this pact is broken. But she cannot overcome the cliches of mistaken-identity comedy that were stylized when Plautus was a pup. Or enliven the film's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heart Trouble Soul Man | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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