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...like him; women love him. As the visionary farmer in Field of Dreams, the man strikes sparks with a movie audience keen to believe that a son could have a game of catch with his dead dad. In The Untouchables, No Way Out and Bull Durham, he defined new horizons for the '80s screen hero. Now he is on top of the movie heap, and he knows exactly why. See SHOW BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 26 JUNE 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...fact is it's hard to open mail from American Express Travel Related Services division with anything but keen interest, if only to try to figure out what's travel related about some of its offerings: a grandfather clock, a 40-in. TV or the offer in my mail today: a tax-deferred annuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Membership Has Its Follies | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...Clare (Jacqueline Bisset), a onetime sitcom queen keen for a comeback, has buried her swinish husband Sidney (Paul Mazursky), who materializes and pledges his infernal love to her. Clare's neighbor, Lisabeth (Mary Woronov), has just moved in with her daughter Zandra (Rebecca Schaeffer) because the exterminators are at her house, removing every trace of her ex-husband. Now these women and two others must fend off, or hop on, a platoon of randy males: Lisabeth's wormy ex (Wallace Shawn); her playwright brother (Ed Begley Jr.); her invalid prodigy son (Barrett Oliver); and two manservants, sleazy, pansexual Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Let's Misbehave | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

George Bush's political gifts include a keen sense of balance: when he finds himself out on a limb, he usually edges back to a less shaky perch. After finally realizing that his Administration's less than enthusiastic reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's headline-catching arms-control gambits was alienating the NATO allies he will meet with this week in Brussels, the President decided a more positive response was required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NATO Balancing Act | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Ministry of Agriculture says it is inundated with requests for the DOC label from food producers throughout the country. With an eye on Europe's open market of 1992, Italy's smaller producers are keen to receive the prestigious DOC symbol to help them stay competitive with multinational companies as they jostle each other for a slice of the European market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Passing the Taste Test | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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