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The Stones can, for example, throw themselves ecstatically into a song like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (or "Neighbors" on the new album), rattling the ceiling and shaking the floor. Mick Jagger lets the mood and the rhythms and the words overrun his body as he raves on. But Jagger also has...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Black and Blue No More | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

To correct this situation, Charles and Diana raised eyebrows by registering a list of wedding gifts at the General Trading Company, a tony London emporium with a royal warrant to supply fancy goods. Gift givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

In 1976 Alter, who had grown bored with the administrative end of his sailboat business, sold out to a camping-equipment maker, the Coleman Co. of Wichita, Kans. "I didn't want to be head of anything because then you have to go to meetings and junk," says Alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happiness Is a Hobie Cat | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Set in the lushly irrigated hills of Santa Barbara, the movie focuses on three characters, all half-hearted refugees from the mainstream. They haven't fled to anything else of course: it's a defensive maneuver, and the result is a certain disconnected status. Cutter (John Heard), is a vet...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

And ultimately, it's this quality of keeping the characters complex and bored Americans--not Bergman's cartherisized Swedes or Scorcese's narcoticized totems--that makes Cutter's Way so extraordinary. Not since Taxi Driver has an American film been so successful at showing us American in a whole new...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

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