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Like Harry and Sally, the movie is hardworking, spot on; it winepresses its conversation into epigrams. No surprise here. Reiner found wayward comedy in such genres as the rock documentary (This Is Spinal Tap) and the historical romance (The Princess Bride). Crystal, the improv master who is Reiner's closest friend -- "We finish each other's sentences," Crystal says, "and he finishes my lunch" -- meets the challenge of making a compulsive Lothario not just likable but impishly seductive. And Ephron, a helpful Heloise of emotional heartburn, perks the script with clever answers to modern problems. How long should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...four black leads chosen in admirably color-blind casting, excels at seductive banter, and Andre Braugher is thrillingly intense as a pirate who risks his life to help a shipwrecked princeling. Hines serves mostly as a vaudevillian onlooker whose antics are a reminder that he is the premier tap dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Star Time in Central Park | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Only eight weeks ago, the six-member Nominating Committee was poised to tap Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist who is currently president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Many overseers, who say there is pressure on the Board to toe the University line, typified Goldmark as a leader who would have been more willing to enourage debate and dissension on the 30-member, alumni-elected Board...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Overseers President Elected | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Such stockpiling could mean trouble for Cantabridgians wanting to stage an affair of their own. One store is not enough to satisfy Harvard's need for seats--Dwyer says it must tap the inventories of five area rental companies...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Commencement Cares: Tents and Chairs | 6/6/1989 | See Source »

...down if the terms of the arrangement are presented to him in the right light. In the meantime, the U.S. can build on the overture Bush made to the Panama Defense Forces last week and pursue a relationship with reformist elements within the ranks. The discontent is there to tap. According to government advisers in Panama City, perhaps half the Panamanians in uniform who went to the polls last week voted against Noriega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Panama Worth the Agony? | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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