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Like the book, the movie leaves the viewer trying to tamp down an ungrateful feeling of boredom and impatience. In recounting the story of how an unhappy and unsuccessful repertory actress named Charlie (Diane Keaton) is recruited and trained by an Israeli intelligence team to penetrate a Palestinian terrorist organization in order to kill its leader, Director George Roy Hill (The World According to Garp, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) matches Le Carré's heavy spirit. He is a careful workman who does an honest day's labor for an honest dollar, but he lacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marching to a Muffled Beat | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...models breezing down Giorgio Armani's glass-topped runway were having too much fun to put on the mannequin's usual mask of boredom. It was a celestial fashion parade: zephyr-light chiffon shorts worn with a billowing shirt and slightly askew man's tie; immaculately tailored jackets with saucy miniskirts; poolside playsuits that looked as if they might evaporate at any moment. The international crowd of buyers and press applauded throughout the show, the highlight of last week's spring collections in Milan, and at the end stood to cheer the creator of all these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's That Old Short Story Again | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

There's a certain amount of dead-end fatalism in Husker Du's songs: "Something I Learned Today" is an anthem to crushed ideals, while "Chartered Trips," the album"s most haunting song, expresses the futility of trying to escape the boredom and problems of everyday life...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Revitalized Psychedelia | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

Your wife Effie's terrorist activities, do you ascribe them to a reaction against her wealthy matrimonial experience, with all the luxury and boredom which capitalism produces...

Author: By J.p. Oconnor, | Title: No Problem | 7/24/1984 | See Source »

Modern architecture-the uncluttered, functional kind-has come to be a synonym for boredom in many quarters. But not in Miami, where a brash young firm called Arquitectonica is creating unadorned, mechanical-looking buildings that startle the eye with their loud primary colors and jazzy architectural stunts. Consider, for example, the firm's Atlantis condominium, an apartment tower with a bright blue grid on one side. Twelve stories up, a huge hole has been cut into the slab. The open-air décor of this "sky court" features a swaying palm tree, a curved yellow wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Jazzing Up The Functional | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

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