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Dripping with innate violence, Samols's Sloan consumes the room with his cerie presence. His physical rhythm hypnotizes us--as it does Kath and Ed. who both fall hopelessly in love with him. Always tensed and laconic, Sloan quietly manipulates the frantic brother and sister who desperately need him to fill the aching voids in their lives...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Behind the Iron Door | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

...makes good. Thinking about De-Lorean's story, you had to admit that all the ingredients were there for an upbeat flick. A hardened father works on an automobile assembly line in Detroit. His son loves cars but wants more than his dad ever had, So with almost frantic determination, the kid makes his way up through the ranks of his father's company, becoming a major executive sports car design, and strikes it rich...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Nightmare | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

...bodies were lifted from the agonized postures of sudden death and shrouded in brown blankets by volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: God - Oh, My God! | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...frantic attempt to find stopgap solutions, the government of Mexico's outgoing President threw a one-two punch that has now transformed this confusion into surreal chaos. It issued a vague edict forbidding Americans to take home certain foods from Mexican markets, and it imposed ill-conceived currency restrictions designed to stem the tide of money flowing out of the country. The result: border towns on both sides are suffering even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bordering on Chaos | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...Frantic finale to a fourway, multibillion-dollar takeover fandango...

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

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