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If Stratton was truly engaged in research, no one can fault his thoroughness. Before his arrest, he says, he spent time in the company of drug dealers from Latin America to Southeast Asia. At the start of the trial he told reporters, "It took me five years to penetrate the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Observer or Conspirator? | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Cole writes with a conviction marred by problems in execution. The script seems dramatically contrived, with the psychologist serving less as a character than as a forced interlocutor. When Jackson refuses to answer a question, his doctor provides facile exposition by reciting information from Jackson's life. Worse, the doctor...

Author: By Brian M. Sands, | Title: Variation on a Theme | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

The script reads the same in Guatemala, where General Efrain Rios Montt seized power last year in a coup d' etat. Although estimates of the total deaths under Guatemala's several decades of authoritarian rule range from 50,000 to 100,000, Reagan decided that the country had gotten "a...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Fire and Brimstone | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

Longo is not without entrepreneurial desires. He staged performances, did sculpture and is producing a full-length film, Empire. His art got more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three from the Image Machine | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

This plot is not simple even in design, and its execution proves fiendishly complex. Charlie is an unknown quantity with uncertain loyalties. To be made plausible to the Palestinians, she must be coached by Becker in the rhetoric of the dispossessed. He impersonates her imagined lover: "You know how the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Theater of Deeds | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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