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For the moment, Pete (played with a sinuously boyish charm by Richard Gere) has more pressing problems. He has candidates in trouble all over the map: a Governor's divorce and remarriage in the far West; a rich candidate's cabbageheaded stupidity in the Southwest; the hold on a Midwestern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Cabbageheads and Kingfish Power | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Some critics of the Sanctuary Movement charge that its adherents are on a misguided crusade, acting as an unwitting supplier of cheap labor in the U.S. (Many of the refugees do end up working as janitors, maids and dishwashers.) Others complain that Sanctuary is abetting Marxist movements by giving a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bringing Sanctuary to Trial | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

For some reason, purely prurient I'm sure, the teen flick genre has been outrageously successful, not because the movies are so bad, but because their essential badness in itself serves as a powerful but unwitting critique of middle-class mores. The movies' phallocentricity allows them to literally epater la...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

The historical view is essential to his real subject, which turns out not to be the identity and fate of the young nobleman. A Maggot, ultimately, is the story of a new era trying to be born. As in The French Lieutenant's Woman, the future's unwitting herald is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysterious Movers and Shakers a Maggot | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Terrorists thrive on publicity. Their pawns are not only prisoners, but also unwitting or undisciplined news organizations. Only the media can deliver an international propaganda forum. With the cooperation of the media, a small band of hijackers can manipulate a superpower. Without it, they fail in obscurity.

Author: By David S. Hilzenrat, | Title: Just the Facts | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

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