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Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has accepted membership in the Cabot House Senior Common Room, but he's not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him once a month...

Author: By Richard N. Frye, | Title: Vellucci Speaks Out, For a Change | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

...room despite his lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eddie Goes to Lotusland | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Alas, Uncle Sam next year will be sticking to his habit of giving with one hand but taking with the other. Social Security contributions, as those taxes are euphemistically called, will go up in 1985 under separate legislation passed in 1983. The maximum Social Security bite from paychecks will be increased $259.20, to $2,791.80. For most Americans that will more than wipe out any gain from income tax indexing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxmen Give and Take | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...sides affected a carefree attitude on the eve of the debate. Reagan shrugged that he was "as ready as I'll ever be," as he stepped off Air Force One into a steady rain in Louisville. Mondale chatted with reporters on his campaign plane, pretending to cringe and bite his knuckles when asked if he was nervous. Told that 120 million people around the world were expected to watch the debate, he cracked, "Gee, that's larger than my average crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Time Showdown | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any profound message hold coda might hold. Despite all the hoopla, Sister Mary's bark is a lot worse than her bite...

Author: By Molly F. Cliff, | Title: A Nun's Worldview | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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