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...executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon-and how many of these will leave with a splitting headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Machochists | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

Diana won't be coming at Harvard's defense until The Game late in November, but while football coaches tend to take "one game at a time," Joe Restic must already have a corner of his cranium reserved for ways to stop the Eli steamroller...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale's Diana Punctures Brown Defense; Penn, Dartmouth Score Opening Wins | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent. It's a beautiful, intimate, cards-on-the-table number, with Pete Thomas's snare lightly searing your cranium. Trust contains, however, two clunkers: "Different Finger," another of Elvis's dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly, unexpansive...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

Later, in discussing the autopsy with Technician O'Connor, Lifton was told that on arrival at the morgue, Kennedy's brain was not in the skull. "The cranium was empty," O'Connor said. But the brain was not removed in Dallas. Lifton found other witnesses who saw a small object wrapped in a sheet being moved through the hospital halls on a cart. When asked what it was, the cart handler said it was a stillborn baby. Lifton found that Bethesda records showed no stillbirths that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, a Two-Casket Argument | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...merely failed to age during that time, he has gotten younger-looking. Through intricate scientific analysis--using a pair of precision calipers--Gould determined that Mickey's eyes, head and forehead all became larger as he aged, making him appear younger because large eyes and a bulging cranium are features common in infants. Gould extrapolates from the Mickey Mouse illustration to observe that human beings maintain much of their childlike appearance throughout later life, unlike most other mammals, making us, like Mickey, unique in that respect...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: At Home With an Evolutionist | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

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