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Belushi had a kind of reckless, rock-'n'-roll comedic sensibility. He was a volatile combination of Lou Costello and Vlad the Impaler, a performer with a wide appeal but a narrow range, whose talent could ignite television sketches but was quickly being tapped out in movies. He did not have the generative comic gifts of an Albert Brooks, say, or an Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Overdosing on Bad Dreams | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Until last year, Harold Costello lived in a two-room shack he had built on 15 acres of wooded land he owns in East Lebanon, Me. A former carpenter making do on $400 a month in disability benefits, he went without electricity and plumbing for four years. But last month Costello's lucky numbers were drawn in the Massachusetts Megabucks lottery. His prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Lightning Strikes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...want the council to sponsor any band at all? That they want a council-sponsored concert, but not one they have to pay for? That they think a world-famous band would be great, but that the Dead are not as cool as the Rolling Stones or Elvis Costello? Whether the council will try and get another band if the referendum fails, and whether they will allow student input in that decision, are probably important considerations for many. Because students don't know how the council will react, they don't know how to vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refuse to Vote | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

That shook up the Olympians enough. The all-Providence College line of Kurt Kleinendorts, Paul Guav and Rich Costello put heavy pressure on Harvard right away. And at the 13:04 mark of the period, Sampson, passing from Blair's left, set up Covey Millen with a pass across the slot. Millen shot the moment he took it; tie score. Three of his teammates scored on the same play before the final siren...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Olympians Pound Crimson Icemen | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...safety officer at the laboratory who requested anonymity said that Costello would have been much more seriously hurt if it had not been for the swift actions of two people who rushed her to an emergency shower and called an ambulance. Costello's rescuers, Richard P. Nathorst, a polymer science research associate, and Edward Otocka an adjunct professor of polymer science were treated for smoke inhalation...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Lab Explosion | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

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