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...Supreme Court, which has not made a ruling on libel since 1979, last month heard oral arguments on a case involving critical judgments. Bose Corp. had sued Consumer Reports magazine for writing that one type of its audio speakers produced sound that "tended to wander about the room." A federal judge awarded Bose $115,000, but an appeals court overturned the decision on the ground that the company had not proved that the magazine was guilty of malice. The appeals court ignored the issue of whether the statements in question were presented as fact or opinion. Since the principal service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pancakes Are Put on Trial | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...around her is genial enough, the movie does not quite deserve its promotional association with such predecessors as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice day at the beach: nothing wrong with it, but nothing much you can remember about it either. Sheer inoffensiveness should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Hols | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...first, director Roger Kaplan seems to be aiming for minimalism, a severe understatement that admirably suits the grim plot. The characters wear black and wander around their comfortable living room (Quincy's unadorned common room) with the same aimless ferocity that characterizes their power games. Hedda (Julie Cohen), newly married to the buffoonish George Tesman (Curt Raffi), is bitter and trapped, seeking to find artistic fulfillment by manipulating the men around her. In the few days that follow her return with Tesman from their honeymoon, Hedda gradually becomes twisted in her own plots, trapped by the circumstances that once made...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...victory today will keep the Crimson's title hopes alive, but a loss would banish the team from the Ivy race, leaving it to wander vampire-like through the rest of its schedule sucking blood from teams that still have a chance...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Things That Go Bump | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

Harvard puts too much emphasis on corporate and tax law, rather than personal liability law, Nader assorted. He advised students to "wander in and around prisons, courtrooms, factories, down to he docks--see what it does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nader Talks | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

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