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...film centers around a holiday vacation, in which two middle-aged friends. Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) escape to Rio to offset their mid-life crises with some warn weather adventure. When the movie opens, Victor is already in the midst of a divorce, while Matthew receives a rude awakening when packing with his wife Karen, (Valerie Harper) for Rio. Karen informs Matthew that he cannot put his snorkeling equipment in her suitcase because she has decided to go to Club Med to think their marriage over...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: Sunburn | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...Victor and Matthew are accompanied by their teenaged daughters, Jennifer (Michelle Johnson) and Nicki (Demi Moore). While the foursome drive along the strip of beach upon arriving at Rio and notice sun bleached bodies cavorting on the sand, Victor asks "Maybe we should talk about 'boys." We see however, as the film progresses, that Victor's parental concerns do not extend any farther than the brief car ride. In fact by the end of the film, we begin to wonder who the children really...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: Sunburn | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...plot has two businessmen, Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) and Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), their marriages in disarray, renting a house in Rio in order to share a vacation with their adolescent daughters. Whereupon Jennifer Lyons (Michelle Johnson, whose awkwardness may be attributed in part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Troubled Pair | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...with carnations, red roses and tulips. Chernenko, acting as the first among equals, led the delegation. Tikhonov came next, followed by a trio of senior Politburo members walking three abreast: Defense Minister Ustinov, in his familiar uniform with rows of ribbons, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Moscow Party Boss Victor Grishin. Behind them came Gorbachev and Romanov, walking side by side as if to dispel rumors of their rivalry for Andropov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Shadow Regime | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...times as much nuclear capacity on order as it did in operation. The capacity of plants under construction increased from 300 MW in 1962 to 700 MW in 1965 and 1,150 MW in 1972. "It is clear," said NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinsky, a frequent critic of the industry, "that we got ahead of ourselves in expanding and scaling up the applications of nuclear power as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Nuclear Plug | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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