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...next scene, the importance of the error becomes clear as we join the Buttle family in their Yuletide celebration. The family is gathered around the Christmas tree, and Mrs. Buttle is just finishing the last lines of "A Christmas Carol" when black-clad, gas-masked stormtroopers burst through the doors, windows, and ceiling. Amid the screaming of his wife and children, the unfortunate Mr. Buttle is grabbed by the intruders and stuffed into what looks like a combination straitjacket and garment...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Brazil's Flying Circus | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

Though the park will have the Walt Disney touch, from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland, some French accents are expected. Just as restaurants in the Tokyo park feature sushi and tempura served by kimono-clad waitresses, the fare at the Paris facility is likely to include croissants and coq au vin. Eisner insists that the park will be "consistent with French culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse Goes to Paris | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the Crimson, the hosts had shown up over an hour earlier and built up a 16-point second half lead over a team that played like red-and black-clad imposters...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Manhattan Ambushes Men Cagers 81-69; Schernecker Leads Frosh Comeback Try | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...wildly diverse citizenry of 37,000 elderly pensioners, Hasidic Jews, yuppie straights, punk rockers, and Russian and Israeli emigres, as well as homosexuals. The mingling of these groups is best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...story began a little over four years ago, when the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh left Poona, India to establish a commune in the high country of eastern Oregon. With a small flock of red-clad followers and about $40 million, Rajneesh filled an isolated valley with a small city, replete with stores, restaurants, buses, a dam, a farm, a hotel and an airport...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Back Again | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

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