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...Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case of the Guildford Four for 20 years, the film's reception has been considerably stormier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: In the Name of the Truth | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...layoffs to come, brutality will have to be tempered. GM must restructure its business without further alienating workers whose cooperation will be crucial to the company's success. While the U.A.W.'s relations with GM have generally been much stormier than those with Ford or Chrysler, the union seems willing to give the new management a chance. Says former U.A.W. president Douglas Fraser: "There's a fundamental truth -- the workers can't survive unless GM survives." And Stephen Yokich, head of the union's GM department, says he wants to help the company become more productive. But Yokich adamantly opposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Durang shakes a stormier fist at God in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Those who do not find the play abominably blasphemous (and some may) will find it damnably funny. The parody, this time, is of Roman Catholic elementary school education and, by extension. Catholic faith, dogma and practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Lady Ariadne Utterword and spewing forth random comments as he wanders aimlessly on and off the stage, the Captain is the only one who remains oblivious to the frenzy of Heartbreak House: "I've stood on the bridge for 18 hours in a typhoon," he declares. "Life here is stormier; but I can stand...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...with hardly a second thought, Brown last week arrived in foggy, rainy New England, only to find the political weather stormier still. The Republicans, who control the state house of representatives, had stacked the public hearing so that opponents, including Democratic Governor Hugh Gallen, would not be recognized until late in the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: April Fool! | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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