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...next act, the emotional balance shifts completely. Marjorie may be viewed either as an avenging angel or a paranoid witch. She has trussed up Raul in the fireplace and pinned a white blindfold around his head. She has clamped the head of a brass bedstead in front so that the fireplace resembles a prisoner's cell or an animal's cage. She pokes Raul in the stomach and groin with a broomstick, pours ammonia on him pretending it is gasoline, and peppers him with matches, threatening to burn him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hand Grenade | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...record. They have the rough, "found" beauty of stenos or inner-city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine boy, the boy I'm gonna marry-he's sure the boy I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dream Girls | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...find every conceivable type of holiday item in the shop. But while browsing, let the buyer beware. Step on one section of carpet in the corner of the candle room, and you'll trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Just Little Things to Go With the Trees' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...there is," is all speed and charm and thin-ice cockiness. Hud Bannon, the surly cowboy womanizer who is the turbulence at the center of Martin Ritt's 1963 film Hud, seems twice the size of Fast Eddie. He is a brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have his father declared incompetent so he can sell his ranch to oilmen. But Newman gave him a crooked, loser-winner smile that caught at the heart, and although the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...junta issued its proposals, an international diplomatic storm continued to swirl over Argentina as a result of the discovery of some 1,500 unidentified bodies in unmarked burial sites across the country. The furor was ignited after an Argentine couple discovered the body of their son, Miguel Angel Sosa, in one of the cemetery plots. Subsequent investigations revealed that the corpses were stacked as many as six deep in unmarked graves, and that numerous victims had been killed with a single bullet in the head. Most of the bodies are still unidentified, but there is little doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Taboo Topics | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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