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LITTLE Claudio Aballay's penis received a good deal of media attention earlier this month. The Globe and other newspapers carried detailed description of the 1981 freak motorbike accident which left the 11-year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his dad's cycle. Claudio lost his pecker as the bike narrowly avoided a collision with a truck. Somehow, the back of the truck caught against the boy's blue jeans, and rip! Underwear and all. The 18-month-old tragedy made headlines because of a miraculous epilogue...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Lunacy and Sorrow | 7/23/1982 | See Source »

...good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have a plan for cable-holies. When the tab exceeds $25 extra in a given month, they "give you a call as a friendly reminder," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fine Tuning | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pryor's Back ? Twice as Funny | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...freak goal late in the second period, a Michael Watson insurance tally at 9:16 of the third, and 35 saves from goaltender Wade Lau propelled the Harvard hockey team to a 2-0 victory over Boston College last night at Bright Center in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Nip Eagles, 2-0, In Playoffs | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

...days of doubt, a few hours or minutes of pain, and years and years of shame and guilt and ghosts. It is about any woman who forgets to take her pill or use her diaphragm or when her period comes; who makes a mistake or suffers a freak of chance. It is not question of stupidity so much as of ignorance, an ignorance on the parts of those around the woman an ignorance about the very stuff of the process and operation she will have to go through an ignorance on her own part about her need for compassion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abortion | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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