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...Jami Gertz) whom you'll remember as the inimitable prepster Muffy from the short-lived television sit-com Square Pegs. Due to the poor screenwriting talents of Ezra Sacks, poor Terry is given a rather confused character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably developed...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...Rebel Without a Cause: 3:30, 7:45. Sun: Giant: 1:30, 5, 8:30. Mon: 9/30/55: 2, 5:50, 9:45; Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean: 4, 7:50. Tue and Wed: (like Fri and Sat). Cinema 2: American Flier: 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8, 10:05 daily. Cinema 3: Kerouac: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; Insignificance: 3:30, 7:30 daily. Midnight Shows, Fri and Sat: Cinema 1: Liquid Sky. Cinema 2: Blood Simple. Cinema 3: Eraserhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: September 26--October 2 | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...sublimate or channel these fears until I began telling stories to my younger sisters. This removed the fear from my soul and transferred it right into theirs. One story was about the old World War II % flier who had been rotting in our closet for 20 years. I took a plastic skull you buy in a model shop and put a flashlight inside so the eyes and face would glow; then I put my dad's World War II aviator cap over the skull and put goggles over the eyeholes. At night, I'd dare them to peek into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...BAKER, STAR OF GRIDIRON, IS NOW AN AMERICAN "ACE," no one was surprised. The astonishment came in France about a month after the shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered the record books for the final time: the last man in his squadron to be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Joslin spokesmen and previous Iacocca Fellow terry Maratos-Flier said at least a portion of the money might be used for additional fellowships, or for currently underfunded programs such as patient education on subjects like nutrition and diet...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Iacocca Book Nets Big Gain For Harvard Diabetes Work | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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