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...jealous brute who will beat his wife and try to demolish her store? Yes-and he will plead with Lena (in the film's most affecting scene) to help him reconstruct his fantasy of a happy marriage. Does Madeleine have every right to desert the sleazy Costa? Of course-but in doing so she follows her star, at least temporarily, right out of Lena's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman Talk | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...shopping center bought a rent-controlled building located on property it already owned. Officials of the shopping center planned to demolish the building to provide a parking lot for customers at Sears, one of the businesses in the center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court Upholds City Removal Ordinance | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

Then the 19 commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weap ons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD 1969: The War The General's Gamble | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...laxwomen used the momentum from Saturday's second half to demolish a young Colgate squad yesterday. The Crimson raced to an impressive 15-2 halftime lead and then held the Red Raiders scoreless in the second, taking the 24-2 win with case...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Lili Pew Suffers Ligament Damage As Laxwomen Nab Weekend Victories | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds) made the same list in 1981. The s author underscores what all this means to lowly screenwriters: "Stars will not play weak and they will not play blemished, and you better know that now." Exceptions to this rule? Goldman raises some only to demolish them: "Of course De Niro will play a psychopath in Taxi Driver. Some psychopath - he risks his life trying to save the virtue of your everyday ordinary-looking child prostitute, Jodie Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Touring Cloud-Cuckoo-Land | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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