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...brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing a cat at a wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Faded Black | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...display terminal cluttering up their mahogany desktops-almost as if the machines were aesthetically distasteful. Says John Thompson, a vice president of Index Systems, a management consulting firm: "There is a widespread assumption among executives that computers are something to be put in the basement, where they can harmlessly belch forth paper with holes in the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Dealing with Terminal Phobia | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...sense of relaxation, in fact, pervades the performance. Most of the comic leads--Feste, Olivia's drunken uncle Toby Belch, (Keith Rogal) his wimpy cohort Andrew Aguecheek, (Peter Howard), and the wench Maria (Dolly Wiggins)--stick to understatement, letting the situations and the lines do the work. This tendency results in several nearly inaudible scenes, like those ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark...

Author: By --amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Shakespeare In Wonderland | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...Peter J. Belch California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

REMEMBER BACK IN junior high school, there was always one kid who used to drive the teacher crazy? That's right, the Class Clown--the kid who could belch all the words to "God Bless America" on a single breath, who could pick it and flick it with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ten-SHUN! | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

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