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Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Try following this plot. Lieut. Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid), a right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

That is where his untouchable (read incorruptible) "posse" comes in. Moral fiber might be enough to carry the day against frontier bandits. But in urbanized America, where crime is mechanized, industrialized and partially subsidized by government, it needs a modest organization to back its play: the nerveless trigger finger of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The American Grain THE UNTOUCHABLES | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

The fact that the two Marines' march to justice will be played out to a military drumbeat has cheered many civilian observers and dismayed as many others. For the same reason: the no-nonsense procedures of military justice would get right to the punitive point, without being deflected by wimpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Military Justice Comes to Attention | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Wait; there is one good line in the movie. Burt asks this wimpy Bostonian character if he ever hunts, and the guy answers, "No, not since Bambi." There. I've saved you five bucks. I imagine I could bash the flick for a few more paragraphs, but it's no...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: How Do I Hate Thee? | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

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