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...Wallace, who played a less anxious mom in E.T) and her young son (Danny Pintauro), isolated from help and into deadly conflict with a possessed spirit. But it is worth waiting for the careful logic of Novelist Stephen King's plot to work itself out. For their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved in Alligator, Director Lewis Teague is a sly and stylish merchant of fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christening Cars | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...picture are a ma rine biologist who turns out to have webbed toes, a Russian trawler officer who paddles in to play the stock market when the fish are running near a capitalist land mass, and a hotel manager who is also a shrewd accountant and a demon lover. The minister here abouts is a black African quite content to be wildly displaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scotch Broth | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious serpent, a harridan and a trollop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Defying Death | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Jack Webb, 62, actor and alter ego of steely, deadpan Sergeant Joe Friday ("Just the facts, ma'am") on Dragnet; of heart disease; in West Hollywood, Calif. A self-styled "demon at work" who directed and produced most of the episodes both on radio (1949-56) and during two TV runs (1951-59, 1967-70), Webb continued to produce movies (The D.I.) and TV series (Adam-12, Emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1983 | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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