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First stop is Granger Oldsmobile in Countryside, where Drew bought his Olds 98. "That one there!" Heather cries right away, pointing to a photo of a cherry-red Cutlass Supreme convertible. Salesman Dan Leversen cautions her, "That's the hardest car to get ahold of." He has no red Cutlass convertibles, but "we have a white one coming in." Julie's eyes widen in alarm as Leversen reveals the $24,232 sticker price. "I doubt Dad would spend $24,000," Julie says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is So Cute! | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Scholarly cinema fans should rewind their Bergman and Eisenstein and grab ahold of some textual analysis of this year's crop of TSFs. BETTER OFF DEAD (Sack Charles) is truly a watershed TSF, a self-referential picture that turns the genre on its head like nothing since David Smith. Students of pretentious but largely irrelevant allusions remember that David Smith made his sculpture by piecing together already recognizable objects and proved that sculpture needed to be no more than the sum of its pre-formed parts. Likewise, Better Off Dead tosses on the screen a collection of objets trouves from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...mother, Nickson had done a little acting: two small parts with Tom Selleck on the TV series Magnum P.I. She declines to compare Pecthrobs Selleck and Stallone. She got no screen kisses from Magnum, and as for Rambo, "He used to grease up, so it was hard to get ahold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 17, 1985 | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...Getting ahold of Burton S. Dreben '49 is like playing a shell game...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: 'A Socratic Gadfly' | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

...shunned his father's Bible-centered university. While enrolled at the University of Kansas, he sang with rock bands. But he felt "a voice inside me" tugging him back to his father's school. There, he says, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, "God got ahold of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Family That Prays Together | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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