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...craft was limping home on the surface at a speed of 3 knots, under the escort of a Soviet cruiser flying a salvage flag. A telltale dent marked the spot where the submarine had grazed the bottom of the Kitty Hawk while trying to pass underneath. That is no easy feat; the huge carrier draws 50 feet of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Close an Encounter | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...authentic New York touch about Cagney & Lacey is the latter's Bronx accent ("I swear I'll take ya outta the game"), the relationship between the leads is canny and convincing. The pair do a balancing act: Cagney is hard bitten on the outside, a soft touch underneath; Lacey, played with subtlety and warmth by Tyne Daly, is motherly in manner but rough with the "poipatraters." The original show was canceled last spring, but CBS decided to bring it back to life in part because of a deluge of protest mail from viewers who responded to strong, intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: On the Town on the Tube | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Salvador list it forfeit any of the moral high ground U.S. foreign policy so aspires to. Moreover, the thought of a cut-off of its blood line would, immediately, pit much of the army against d'Aubuisson. Thus, the political floor work would hopefully collapse from underneath d'Aubuisson before the entire country blew up, the latter being the most likely outcome...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Fork in the Road | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

Karen Black is hysterically funny as the mixed-up Zee who loves to eat and smoke but who, underneath it all, would like to think she has it all together. She delivers comic lines in the most serious manner to enhance their humorous effect, and is always quick with a witty response. At one point Zee tells Eli, "You've got lots of energy but it all gets struck in your forehead--you think too much." And when he chastises her for her smoking, she quips, "I love to smoke...in fact, I love to want to smoke...I like...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Overcooked | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...movie is really about exhaustion of the spirit: sitting in a bleak hotel suite at 4 a.m. with the bad taste of last night in the mouth and the feeling that tomorrow will not be a better day. Spinal Tap has as many laughs as any rock burlesque but underneath that rock it plays like Scenes from a Marriage translated from the Gibberish. -By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cold Metal | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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