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...sparkle they do, with nine fully lit artificial Christmas trees, rooms wallpapered with tin foil, hanging Styrofoam candy canes, and 15 varieties of ball ornaments. With gift-shop incense, and tintinnabulating carols on the stereo, and snow painted on all the windows, the Locks have created a mecca that is more than a mere gift shop; it is the ultimate expression of the American Christmas spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Just Little Things to Go With the Trees' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

Three of the recipes are designed for a 9 x 13 pan, but since this size is too big for most toaster ovens, just buy those small, cheap aluminum foil pans (somewhere around 9 x 6) and do the recipes in two of them...

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Recipes for a Dorm Room | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

Romand's Sabine inspires similarly steady portrayals by the other actors. Dussolier, as the poor besieged Edmond, fills his character with the proper conceited detachment. And Arielle Dombasie as Sabine's best friend Clarisse creates the perfect foil for Sabine. Gorgeous and intelligent. Clarisse lives the perfect, foil for life--she's happily married and gainfully self-employed. Humoring her confused friend, Clarisse's devotion never fades...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Life of Illusion | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...deprogrammer who saves Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as despotically as his arch-rival. The two men look strikingly similar and have so many of the same insane idiosyncrasies that by the end of the movie we're not sure that Danny's isn't just being converted to another obsession...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Cult-ivation | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...titanic clashes. See captains of industry race against midnight deadlines to save their power and prestige. Will Bill Agee of Bendix Corp. and his beautiful blond bride Mary escape the clutches of Martin Marietta Corp.'s menacing Tom Pownall? Will tough old Harry Gray of United Technologies foil their plans to find happiness in the embrace of Ed Hennessy of Allied Corp.? Find out in Takeover, the drama that asks the question: "Is this any way to run a company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merger Theater of the Absurd | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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