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...showdown that emerges between husband and wife, however, is disappointing. In addition to the dismal aura it casts over the film, the scene is ruined by slow motion and by the fact that the gruesome result are shown on camera...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Honor Without Credit | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...miracle" to save her mother (Carrie Snodgress), her mom's suitor (Michael Moriarty) and what is left of the settlement. Dissolve to Clint on horseback. He saves the good folks, kills the bad folks, dodges a mother-daughter rivalry for his affections and ends up in a showdown ^ with a gunslinger (John Russell) who is even gaunter than Clint. You could hibernate in Russell's cheek hollows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Sideshows of Summer | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...contras, who have suffered some supply shortages but have managed to remain largely intact during the cutoff (see box). The congressional turnabout also reassured other governments in the region, notably those of Honduras and Costa Rica, from whose territory the rebels stage their forays into Nicaragua. Finally, the showdown over the contras vindicated Reagan's strategy of legislative persistence, a political trademark sometimes dismissed by his critics as merely a streak of Irish stubbornness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A Contra CONSENSUS | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Like Bhindranwale, the radicals are determined to prevent a peaceful settlement. They aim instead to provoke a showdown between Hindus and Sikhs of such intensity that the 14 million Hindus who reside in Punjab would be forced to flee. That, the radicals believe, would inevitably result in the creation of an independent state. As one analyst of Sikh affairs explained last week, "The ghost of Bhindranwale cannot be exorcised." To speed what they hope will be a massive Hindu migration out of Punjab, Sikh terrorists have marked local Hindu leaders for assassination. In recent weeks, three have been gunned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India a New Cycle of Violence | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...Tigers seem to be the only team in the EITA that has a chance to compete with the Crimson this year. The teams year-end showdown will probably determine whether the netmen snag their fourth league crown in the past five years...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Netmen Down Army | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

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