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This tall tale, based on Bernard Malamud's short story, utilizes many simplistic techniques--good and evil characters, sunlight and darkness, and slow motion--to heighten dramatic moments. Instead of creating painfully drippy scenes, these techniques suprisingly enhance them. Levinson succeeds in creating a visually beautiful, riveting and distinctly American...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: A Magical Myth | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

Snaking through the movie is a familiar Spielberg theme: the disappearance, and then the welcome return, of children. It illuminates his three most personal movies (Close Encounters, Poltergeist and E.T.) and affirms his belief in movies as a Mechanized Fountain of Youth. Toward the end of Temple of Doom, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Keeping the Customer Satisfied | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

While John Hume, head of Ulster's moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, did his best to mediate, Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey disagreed sharply over the options. Not surprisingly, the most formidable opposition to the forum's report was from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Forum Fizzle | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

That strategy is only partly successful, since West prefers the exaggerated phrase. His father is "a very big man indeed." As for Wells' opponents, Henry James is charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Triangle | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

So with darkness setting in, the Crimson defaulted the number three doubles match and, as a result, this time had to settle for only an 8-1 win.

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Only Darkness Stops Netwomen | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

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