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...rape scene with somebody getting killed, right? Except that Derek-far from conventional-is not one to keep a low profile, Instad, he comes out in the oepn, sending flowers and busting into Jamie's house and snapping innumerable pictures of her, which serves only to annoy her constant male companion. Brandon (Michael Sarrazin). Derek is everywhere, and it's all a little too much to believe...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: The Morgan Guarantee | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...institutions, commodities traders and other businesses with powerful lobbyists. Altogether, the bill will reduce federal revenues by $750 billion by fiscal 1986. Senator Edward Kennedy made a last-ditch fight against some of the $33 billion worth of giveaways to the oil industry but accomplished little more than to annoy colleagues anxious to begin the August recess. Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts similarly tried to reopen debate on these provisions in the House and was resoundingly beaten back. His party, which for decades had dominated budget and revenue debate in the House, had to content itself with the consolation that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Not-So-Brief Intermission | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...course, it soon emerges that escape is impossible. Slowly, surely the wilderness, the strange neighbors, the open sky come to annoy Arthur. She tries to beat up her husband with a fireplace poker ("I picture it drenched with blood, sticky as my arms, covered with fire," she says of his head). She lays awake at night convinced that the moonlight is actually streaming from the bottom of a UFO. She convinces herself that someone is watching her. "I sit in the snow with my back against a rock. I try to read. After a time the eyes find me there...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paradise Misplaced | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...father owned a stationery and office-supply store in Modesto, Calif., and George would annoy him by spending most of his time poring over all the comic books on the racks. Let that be a lesson to all those who deride this great American art form: it was the comic books, together with the television serials, that ignited young Lucas' imagination. Says he: "When I was in film school I went back and saw how awful some of those serials were. I began to analyze what in them could have excited me so much as a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back! | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...Carter did not have enough to annoy him last week, Vice President Walter Mondale, speaking in Cincinnati, declared: "If President Kennedy runs, and I expect him to run, he will be renominated and I am convinced re-elected." Two days later, the Associated Press sent an advisory message to its newspaper editors that began: "The House passed and sent to President Kennedy a bill to carry out final details of the Panama Canal treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: President Who? | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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