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...also wrote the screenplay, admits that he has no idea if the Senator is capable of laughing at himself, but old newsreel footage of a beaming Glenn convinced him that the astronaut at least must have been "good-natured." According to Kaufman, the doting scene also prepares the viewer for the later exchange between the Glenns about barring Johnson from the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Hero To Candidate | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...camera is also a neutral observer: it provides a forum to participants ranging from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and from Americans who considered the war honorable to those who believed it immoral. Conclusions about right and wrong are left to the viewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A TV Monument to the TV War | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...VIEWER who can accept this dichotomy, though, Daniel packs a stunning impact in both emotional intensity and social and political commentary. The 1940's scenes offer personal and touching glimpses of the Isaacsons family life and of the importance of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson's politics as a motivating force within the family. The Isaacsons' trial and execution, depicted without any clarification of their guilt or innocence, serves to focus attention upon questions of the validity of their political activism and the validity of a judicial system which was so easily swayed by the social paranoia of the Cold...

Author: By Nancy Yousef, | Title: Straddling | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...fashioned Hollywood weepies demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nodding Off | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...been anchoring ABC's show for two months, and Brokaw has been NBC's co-anchor (with the ousted Roger Mudd) for more than a year. Rather has been in place since March 1981. CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter cautioned, "There will be a lot of viewer sampling, and we will not know the outcome for a couple of months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Three for the Money | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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