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...jealous brute who will beat his wife and try to demolish her store? Yes-and he will plead with Lena (in the film's most affecting scene) to help him reconstruct his fantasy of a happy marriage. Does Madeleine have every right to desert the sleazy Costa? Of course-but in doing so she follows her star, at least temporarily, right out of Lena's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman Talk | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...GRENADA, yes-and immediately. We agree that the U.S. should not be in the business of constructing puppet governments. But drawing a hard and fast line between use and non-use of military force in this situation is dangerous and puts Americans around the world in jeopardy...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Avoiding Iran | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Does this gratify Austin? Yes-and no. He shudders that millions of youngsters in the world, including some in the U.S., are growing up malnourished, and a number of them are suffering irreversible damage to the brain. "So what we have is a closed circle of poverty, malnutrition and brain damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: The Strength of Samson | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...models for air and buyers for exclusive rights. Over all, suspended in the salon air like a huge, equivocal cloud, hung the crucial question: What of the miniskirt? Would couturiers give it short shrift, lowering hems to midi and maxi lengths? The answer, by week's end, was yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The French Line | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...regard than the Constitution of the United States." And faced with the problem of having to throw out the good with the bad in the lumped-together, take-it-or-leave-it ConCon package, Rocky chose to take the bad with the good. He announced that he would vote yes-and then try to get what he did not like changed later. New York's voters will get a chance to render their decision next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Constitutions: Tough to Write a Good One | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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