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No doubt about it, Tucker was Coppola's kind of guy, a figure no more able to contain himself within the bounds of realism than the director is. Or suitable for representation by realistic means. Tucker was an expressionistic character in search of an auteur. A self-educated backyard inventor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On The Road to Utopia TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by Arnold Schulman and David Seidler | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Pyongyang last week denounced the offer as "nothing new" and repeated its own demand for a North-South conference on reunification. Seoul, which has condemned such a gathering as "unrealistic" and "impractical," said it will nonetheless continue to seek increased trade and diplomatic ties with the North and help Pyongyang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Thanks, But No Thanks | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

The second wave had a rocky start. Too often, enthusiastic young computer nerds babbling in technospeak would sell flashy systems to computer-dazzled counterparts in the research divisions of Fortune 500 companies. In turn, the corporate techies built glitzy prototypes that ran on exotic hardware. By the mid-1980s it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

It would be expensive and impractical to putelevators in Canaday because of the numerousentryways, said Thomas

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Dorm to Gain Elevator | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Some parents view the issue of teenage drinking as an exercise in damage control. They find sterner attitudes and tactics -- imposing curfews and chaperones, smelling the breath, searching the room -- impractical and unenlightened. Many recall their own experimentation with booze and resolve to teach their children how to drink responsibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When Parents Just Say No | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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