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...drew her to him. She let her head fall on his shoulder. He could smell her hair, and his throat contracted, as though he were going to cry. For the first time in his short battered life he was happy. His grip on her tightened, he pushed his cheek against hers. She buried her face in his neck...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Raising Cain | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...HUMOR THROUGHOUT So Fine is tongue-in-cheek and improbable, but with it Bergman manages to tell a surprisingly well-conceived story. Bob Fine starts out as a naive and inexperienced English professor, who joins his father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns...

Author: By David J. Waldstein, | Title: More Than Just T & A | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

...diehards and the secret distress of detractors, Some Girls resurrected the band in 1978 after a fairly successful double album of live cuts had been released the year before. Some Girls had musical variety: borderline disco, r and b, rock and roll, tongue-in-cheek country. It was clever and spontaneous and well-received. But when Emotional Rescue followed a couple of years later, the disturbing message first heard on Exile was still there: maybe there really wasn't anything left for the Stones except frustration and guitarist's elbow...

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

...Wilderness" is the cheekiest report TIME has written on Reagan. Bravo! After 200-plus days of presidential honeymoon and vacation it's time we turn the other cheek. As a small-business owner in a building construction-related field, I can't afford even a three-day vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1981 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...reach out from his work--and by not taking everything entirely seriously. His lecture on the evolution of Mickey Mouse is almost a legend for its integration of the fanciful and the scientific. Likewise, the title of his popular undergraduate course injects a welcome note of tongue-in-cheek into the relentlessly serious Harvard course catalogue; Gould modestly calls the course, "History of the World and Of Life...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Sitting Pretty--But Not Sitting | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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