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...have so cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs to be mourned. But it is helpful to recall that his life was not simply a cautionary fable. The man did make movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orson Welles 1915-1985: The Man Did Make Movies | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Safran reportedly told Executive Editor Christopher J. Georges '86 three times Thursday night, "I will kick your butt." Georges was investigating Safran's handling of a total of about $150,000 in grants from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Files Complaint Against Professor Safran | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

...When I tell people where I'm going to college, they first say, 'Oh, that's good,' then they say, 'You're gonna freeze your butt off,'" says Pinchuk. "But I think I was meant to be an Easterner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Class of '89: A Summary Report | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Again and again each day, the juxtapositions of culture and language are jarring, like some mad laboratory experiment in continental drift. In the real world, 9,700 miles separate Shanghai from Bogota. In Jackson Heights on Roosevelt Avenue, they butt right up against each other, as when, one recent afternoon, a Colombian teenager loped into a hole-in-the-wall take-out restaurant. "You do chicken?" he asked haltingly. The Chinese teenager behind the counter frowned for a moment, baffled, then smiled. "Dumpling!" she said, nodding. "We have all kind dumpling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Final Destination | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...Shut up!" One snarls, drawing back the bolt on his Schmeisser, "You're coming with us," I am just about to ask the tall one if he is my QRA advisor when a rifle butt crasher down on the back of my head...

Author: By Benjamini N. Smith, | Title: Broken Dreams | 5/17/1985 | See Source »

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