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Jake is writing a book about "the moral and ethical disintegration of the American dream," and Grownups seems shackled to that thesis. For few explicable reasons, Jake and Louise crush each other in a rockslide of a marital spat that rivals the venom but not the wit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ln an explosive but faintly ludicrous finale, all the family pieties are blasted and blasphemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scar Tissue | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Fisher, the teen-age singing crush of the '50s, was of course one of her trophies-though it is hard to fathom why she bothered. But bother she did. Half the nation professed to be outraged when Fisher left sweet, unaffected Debbie Reynolds for the widow of his best friend, Mike Todd. Or was that a case of several mistaken identities? Reynolds, says Fisher, was neither sweet nor unaffected, and he had been unhappy with her almost from the beginning. He soon discovered that life with Liz, however, was an adventure for which he was unprepared: "Children, pets, servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hurricane and Two Survivors | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Peak or no peak, the booters, after the disappointing loss to UCF, bounced back to crush tenth-seeded Texas A&M, 4-2, Saturday afternoon...

Author: By William A. Danoff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Booters Defeat A&M, Oregon To Finish Fifth at Nationals | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...aimed at construction of a bridge that would cost at least a million dollars. And the Chronicle suspected the railway was behind it: "If the Charles River Railway is to depend on plundering the city treasury as well as the Union road, the people should rise against it and crush it before it gets any larger...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: City Politics a Century Ago: A Liquor and Trains Election | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

...answers lie in the days and weeks ahead, but Jaruzelski's record was reassuring. In 1976, and again last year, he refused to use troops to crush riots against the rising costs of food. As he reportedly said in 1976: "Polish soldiers will never fire on Polish workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Shaky Command for the General | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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