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Robert also keeps busy trying to manage three girlfriends. The scenes aren't very well linked together and some of the characters are under-developed, but if you want a night of great singing and some funny scenes, you will not have traveled in vain...

Author: By Robert Q. Mcmanus, | Title: Playing on Company Time | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

...character, a local tyrant, is easily recognizable as Beria. Under his rule, people are arbitrarily arrested and then disappear. In one flashback, a woman searching for news of her missing husband hears about a delivery of logs carved with the names and addresses of prisoners. The woman searches in vain for her husband's name. Nearby another woman finds her loved one's name and caresses the log as if it were a baby. The two then watch in despair as a machine chews the logs into sawdust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Artful Candor: Fresh looks at Stalin | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...second major ruling, the Vatican in August ended Father Charles Curran's career at the Catholic University of America, citing his open disagreements with Catholic moral teachings on birth control and other issues. As Curran fights to reclaim his post, probably in vain, educators are nervously awaiting a Vatican decree that could clamp new doctrinal controls on all Catholic campuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul's Cleanup Campaign | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

More cynical, or possibly more realistic, law-enforcement authorities doubt that these grand goals can be achieved. But they nonetheless admire the determination and the sophisticated tactics that the current prosecutors are bringing to a battle that has been fought, mostly in vain, ever since the crime-breeding days of Prohibition. Even the doubters concede that the new campaign is off to an impressive start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson started out slow that day, allowing Yale to creep to a 22-0 lead by 7:24 of the second quarter. Harvard battled back to within seven with less then four minutes left to play. It would all have been in vain, however, if a Yale player hadn't fumbled an on-side kick with less than a minute to play, giving Harvard another possesion--and the chance to put another touchdown on the board...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: No Tenure for the Teacher | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

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