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...superpremium made with the best cream, fresh fruit, chocolate and liqueurs (a fine French vanilla assays out at 3% egg yolks, twice the minimum specified by the U.S. Government for ice cream that is labeled French), but it contains a great deal more of these ingredients. A gallon of asylum-grade supermarket chocolate ripple weighs about 4½ lbs., and a gallon of Ben & Jerry's ineffable Heath bar or knee-weakening black raspberry weighs 6½ lbs. Haagen-Dazs rum raisin, flavored with fresh-plucked umlauts, weighs about 8 lbs. Not much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...cool (steamy hot, really), as he and young Ms. Shields make love at every opportunity. But sin never goes unpunished; halfway through the film, our stud almost dies in a house fire, and as the final credits roll he is confined, for the second time, to an insane asylum...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Coitus Calvin-esque | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

...talent hunt. He can pout and look earnest; one could almost indulge his presence in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. But he is, at best, a puppy lover, not someone who can portray a lad nurturing his passion for two years in an insane asylum and emerging to find and reclaim his love in the face of all opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Pash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Growing light reveals a bleak gray back wall and a spectral frieze of figures who may be inmates of a prison or an asylum. Later they will coalesce into a band of Greek Furies or chalk-faced exorcists, hissing and poking little white crosses at the unrepentant libertine Don Juan (John Seitz). At times, blistering white light rakes the audience as if the entire universe of man merited a third-degree grilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold Hand at the Guthrie's Helm | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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