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...reporters and photographers jostled for position. Finally, klieg lights flashed on and in their glare stood Jackson, resplendent in his safari suit and surrounded by a group of released American and Cuban prisoners. A grateful woman rushed tearfully toward the black minister and threw her arms around his chest. Jackson flashed his familiar grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stirring Up New Storms | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...lighthearted adventure for all, right? Well, this year it depends on one's idea of fun. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spielberg's slam-bang sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, a man's heart is ripped out of his chest in a ritual sacrifice, and he is lowered alive into a pit of molten lava. In Gremlins, a fantasy co-produced by Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, a boy's cuddly, otherworldly pet spawns a generation of vicious creatures that, in one scene, terrorize the boy's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Gremlins in the Rating System | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...knew she was unable to run. She began to believe she was making up the pain. "You want to hide your face. Everybody gets tired of people being ill. "After two years, convinced that cancer was the only possible explanation, she persuaded a doctor to take a chest X ray. "That's when they found the whopper, "she recalled recently before her death. The pain had been real, and so was the large tumor in her lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...knife. In many cases the death squads have murdered people not for ideological reasons but for personal ones. In other cases, death squads have no role whatsoever. Rumors occasionally circulate about how this businessman or that official found with EM (for escuadron de la muerte) carved on his chest was actually killed by a jealous husband or business rival. Sometimes the only thing clear is that something unspeakably horrible has happened. In one incident, three soldiers were arrested for raping and killing a young girl in the provincial capital of San Vicente in late 1983. They claimed the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White Hands of Death | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...could be said of her Aurora, a woman whose funniest line-"Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?"-is screeched at the pitch and volume of a train whistle. Yet the performance is subtly detailed. In a romantic scene with Nicholson, for example, MacLaine softly taps her chest with her balled hand. The gesture signals rather than spontaneously expresses Aurora's sentimentality-because, MacLaine explains, the character is not at ease with her body. The model for Aurora, she adds, was the late Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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