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...Well Garry, I don't know anything about hockey and to tell you the truth, I don't really care. I'm disqualifying myself. What happened to the little boy who got bitten...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...control of the company as soon as the cease-fire expired in May. Barrow, therefore, huddled with some of Kennecott's directors last November and then announced a pre emptive strike: Kennecott was going to take over Curtiss-Wright. Said one Wall Street source: "The apple had bitten the worm." The copper company offered Curtiss-Wright owners $40 a share for their stock, nearly twice the then prevailing rate. Curtiss-Wright promptly went to court to halt the takeover attempt, but the court ruled that Barrow could go ahead with his move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle in the Boardrooms | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...flamboyant, god-like director (Peter O'Toole) and his company on location near San Diego. The company's star stunt man has been killed and the arrest must be temporarily concealed; the fugitive needs a refuge until the heat is off. The director has seen that this hard-bitten desperado was indirectly responsible for his stunt man's death, and, suggesting to Railsback that his options are a bit limited, offers the fugitive the dead stunt man's role for $600 a stunt. The fugitive takes to his job well until he begins to suspect that he may be slated...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: A Celluloid Magic Show | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

This is indeed the Army of the eighties, though, with the stereotypical personalities of all the old service comedies transplanted into new bodies. The ferocious drill sergeant is Black; the macho commanding officer and the hard-bitten, street-smart ex-con are female. And as well as turning boys into men, the New Army turns girls into women. We know Private Benjamin has become a real woman because she has her first orgasm ("Now I know what it is I've been faking all these years!") with a French gynecologist she picks up while on leave...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Mrs. Grunt | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...everyone could live in college dormitories sophomore year, and a bad lottery number meant removal to special "slums" long gone from the Square. "You wouldn't have been surprised to be bitten by a rat in one of those rooms," he recalls. "The other dormitories were too expensive for anyone but the Gold Coast denizens to live in," he adds...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Despite Depression, War, Harvard '30 Beat the Odds | 6/3/1980 | See Source »

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