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...Osmond's 19 years in the business. Charisma enables him to support the burden of the show, becoming a center of gravity around which the other actors can spin merrily. Maybe only Donny with his squeaky clean image could believably defend honor and country and still compliment his gal with, "French pastry ain't worth thirty cents compared to Apple...

Author: By Brian M. Sands, | Title: What a Modern Age | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...radioactive steam into the atmosphere. At the same time, slightly radioactive water from the secondary loop flowed into a holding tank in the plant's sealed containment building. When the tank filled, a worker opened a relief valve; it stuck and could not be closed until 1,690 gal. had spilled onto the containment-building floor. Some 100 workers were evacuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Springing a Radioactive Leak | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...season even in relatively temperate Virginia, Betsy and Bob Smith of Richmond last fall invested $220 in a portable kerosene heater. From the day they turned it on in their split-level home, their average oil consumption for central heating began plunging, down to 77 gal., vs. 180 to 200 normally. Says Betsy: "It's working like a dream. It has half paid for itself already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kerosene's Rising Sun | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...York Mayor Jimmy Walker's private life: "Jimmy Walker, once upon a time, was living openly with this gal all over New York, including the house across the street from me ... She was an extremely attractive little tart . . . Jimmy and his wife had separated, [but during the investigation of Walker on corruption charges] Jimmy goes and hires his former wife, for ten thousand dollars . . . Mrs. Walker comes up to Albany, lives with him ostensibly in the same suite in the hotel, and on Sunday the two of them go to Mass at the Albany cathedral together. Price? Ten thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R. on Tape | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...fact: One from the Heart is also a movie. In any other case, and with no disrespect intended, one could say it is just a movie. No government will topple, no arms treaty will be aborted at the reception of this novelettish romance about a guy and a gal, together five years, who go on separate flings one Las Vegas Independence Day. But with the fate of Zoetrope Studios riding on this crapshoot, it may be difficult for audiences and critics to pay attention to what is on the screen. So imagine that you are in Radio City Music Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Surrendering to the Big Dream | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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