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...remind Sabina to milk the pet mammoth, son Henry (Remo Airaldi) is 4000 years old and used to be called Cain, and Mr. Antrobus (Eric Oleson) comes home at night with his prototypical model for the wheel. But even if Henry did, eons ago, kill his brother Abel, and even if Sabina does stumble around the house threatening to give her two-weeks notice, throughout the first act the Antrobus family is united with the remaining inhabitants of the world to save the human race...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Walk on the Wilder Side | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sue, Sue! Bang, Bang! | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Jeffrey Archer is a writer of beach books (Kane & Abel; First Among Equals) who was once the youngest member of the House of Commons, and is now deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. As writerly credentials go, these are well up on the customary "shipped out on a tramp steamer" and "parachuted into occupied France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macguffin a Matter of Honor | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...four other freshmen receiving probationuntil next year are H. Glen Abel, Paul T. Nakada,Eddy J. Rogers III, and Kevin W. Ryter...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Computer Pranksters Let Off By Ad Board | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...here, on Feb. 10, 1962, that the downed American U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, walked past Soviet Superspy Rudolf Abel while heading west across the bridge. In June 1985, 25 Western agents were traded here for four East bloc spies imprisoned in the U.S. Ever since rumors began circulating early this month that Shcharansky might soon be included in such a prisoner exchange, it was assumed that the famed Soviet dissident would take the same route to the West. But there were endless snags. Among the most controversial: even though Shcharansky was convicted in the Soviet Union on trumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West This Year in Jerusalem | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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