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Standing above all this excitment ends up taking sides at some point. You can't help but sympathize with the science fiction fan, Harold, who falls for Suzi Scarsdale and does all of her physics homework, only to be scorned as "too serious" and left alone with his calculator while Suzi lets some Chip or Chuck sweep her away to an evening of mystery and adventure...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...dole was demoralizing. Said the mayor of Toledo: "I have seen thousands of these defeated, discouraged, hopeless men and women cringing and fawning as they come to ask for public aid." Entirely different from Hopkins' organization in purpose and style was the Public Works Administration, operated by Harold Ickes, the cigar-waving and curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, who was determined to make every dollar produce an honest dollar's worth of Government building. He refused, he said, "to hire grown men to chase tumbleweeds on windy days." In six years Ickes spent $6 billion and created, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Scott makes an abrupt exit after the film's first half-hour, and we are left with his trigger-happy progeny. Director Harold Becker marches the pint-sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see them as soldiers, not as kids. There is endless dialogue about honor and Bache's honor and honoring Bache, as the film deteriorates into a series of tedious confrontations: alarmed parents and stubborn offspring, level-headed National Guard colonel and misguided rebel leader, misguided rebel leader and cynical best friend...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Kommando Kids | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...glories of the original LIFE the greatest of all picture magazines, may never be surpassed Despite the wonders of television, the still news photograph retains its special magic. "It is sometimes thought that the arrival of the moving picture made the still image obsolete," says Harold Evans, editor of the London Times. "I believe, quite to the contrary, that the still image has never been more powerful. It is a moment frozen in time; it preserves forever a finite fraction of the infinite time of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images: Freezing Moments in History | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...seems. Jake bitterly feels that he has been maimed rather than reared, and in his sister's kitchen we meet his parents. His father Jack (Harold Gould) is a raspy nonentity with a taste for booze and two unvarying questions on his lips: "So what's new?" and "When am I gonna see my granddaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scar Tissue | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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