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...Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove's ruptured finger. Is the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...marriage to U.S. Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Lint Is Art | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 23, 1987 | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Photographers Leo Mason and Daniel Forster have become accomplished sailors during their stay in Fremantle. Mason, who compares coverage of the contest to "four months of living inside a washing machine and spin dryer," has hung out his cameras to dry after each day's work. Forster has 15 years of experience as a marine photographer, which helped him retain his composure when he and Mason were taking photos of Conner's Stars & Stripes last week and their motorboat began to sink. They quickly radioed for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 9, 1987 | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...four-year period starting in 1987. But consumers and the lending industry have already hit upon an alternative: the home-equity loan, which is secured by a house or condominium. Interest on such loans will remain deductible, within some limits. "You go out and buy a new washer and dryer and still get to deduct the interest because in effect you're paying for it with a home-mortgage loan," says Kinzie, the Chicago banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the New Tax Game | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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