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Diane Giacalone, the Ozone Park girl who moved across the river to Manhattan, is not remembered so clearly. The only daughter of a civil engineer, she grew up middle class; she is backyard-wise, not streetwise. Giacalone was an anomaly in the neighborhood; she wanted to go to college. At New York University she protested against the Viet Nam War, but was otherwise apolitical. Even though she opted for law school at N.Y.U., she was never sure that she wanted to be a lawyer. Later, while in Washington with the Justice Department's tax division, she began to do some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two From the Neighborhood | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...Wise idea. Husband Harvey (Jack Lemmon) is himself contemplating the last available mid-life crisis, the one that happens when you can no longer hide the fact that mid-life is actually disappearing and you are about to be irrevocably old. He is aquiver with outrage over this unseemly development. Harvey has other specific worries: he is impotent; he is a hypochondriac; he is self-pitying because as an architect he has become only prosperous, not great. In the course of the weekend he flirts with suicide, Roman Catholicism, other women and fortune telling -- everything but an honest confrontation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

What the Democrats have done with family-oriented issues is take the conservative's moralistic rhetoric and turn it into progressive humanistic proposals. They would be wise--and savvy--to try to do the same thing in regard to foreign interventionism, the "war on drugs," nuclear "defense", and the environment...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Democrats Adrift | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Heart-wrenching drama can be found in Comrade Ed, the touching story of a wise, talking horse from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: TV Guideski | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...billion House bill, which has not yet been considered by the Senate, would provide significant new funding for drug interdiction, law enforcement, education, rehabilitation and treatment. Passed by a 392 to 16 vote, it contained several hastily drafted, and not always wise, amendments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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