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Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson) is the narrator of Songwriter; a drawling Austin maverick, he prepares to relate some of the more bizarre moments in the stormy country music career of Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson), singing poet-turned-mogul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down-Home Sleaze | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

When the Harvard men's hockey team hits the ice at Cornell's Lynah Rink tonight, the icemen should get the kind of reception the Clantons gave the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday at the O.K. Corral...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Lying in Wait at Lynah-Cornell Crazies Ready for Crimson | 12/8/1984 | See Source »

...surgery. Fae was suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a fatal condition said to affect one in 12,000 newborns. In children with this defect, the left side of the heart, including its main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, and the aorta, is seriously underdeveloped. In Fae's case, doc tors said, the left side of the organ was virtually nonexistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Fae Stuns the World | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...violence coincides with efforts by President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 32, to respond to U.S. pressure to liberalize a regime that still vividly recalls the repression fostered under the rule of his late father, Francis ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In recent weeks Duvalier has sent letters to police and military officials, demanding that they respect due process of law and stop using torture. Ironically, the liberalization seems to have emboldened rather than placated the populace. At week's end Duvalier announced that five ministers had been fired in a major Cabinet reshuffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: A Hungry and Bolder Populace | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...implausible, predicaments each of the characters finds herself in. Babe (Cyd Quilling) the youngest, is guilty of shooting her husband because she didn't like his looks. Lenny (Caryn West), the eldest, feels incapable of consummating a relationship with a man because one of her ovaries is missing. Doc Porter (Tom Stechschulte), the debonair neighbor, suffers from a limp as a result of his roof caving in. The bizarre nature of the situation--bordering on the absurd--would make any audience uncertain whether laughter or tears are appropriate...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Misdemeanors | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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