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Unlike Harvard, the Chiefs are allergic to grass. Springfield was 13-0 on its home carpet, but 1-3-2 on natural turf...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: It's Payback Time | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

...where several colleagues inform him of their own suspect: Sabich himself. Sabich appears incredulous at the accusation, but enough clues soon surface to indict him and bring him to trial. Because his own blood type matches up with that of the semen found in Polhemus, and fibers from the carpet in his house match those found in her apartment, Sabich must undergo invesigative scrutiny that leaves the viewer unsure about his innocence or guilt until the conclusion...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: A Very Predictable Beginning to Voice Over, But an End That May Leave You Speechless | 8/3/1990 | See Source »

...these Ghost stories take grave liberties with the laws of physics. In the Cosby film, no one can see Dad at first; then only his children; then everybody, if the lights are low and the plot requires it. He walks on floors but falls calf-deep into a carpet. In Ghost Sam can walk through some walls but not others. At the climax, he wastes time trying to persuade Molly to open her door when he has the power to unlatch it. He is a most unreliable specter. If you were Molly, would you trust this ghost enough to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Giving Up the Ghosts | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...cant. Nobody took it seriously, nobody believed in it, and in the West at least, there was hardly anyone who really wanted it. One Chancellor after another talked about it absentmindedly, rather like an old lady reciting her Rosary, a performance that became even more embarrassing when the red carpet was rolled out during Erich Honecker's state visit in Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Rigmarole | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

After 17 years underground, they pop up to the surface by the zillions, covering large areas with a crunchy carpet of five-eyed, frail-winged critters, shedding their skins, singing like drunken maniacs and mating with an abandon that renders the word orgy insufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: First Crunch, Then Munch | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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