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Halfway through dinner he says, 'Are we going to get between the sheets or not?' Cute, huh? Lucky thing I brought my own car." She takes out a tube of Super Glue and, in a surrealistic gesture worthy of Buftuel, reattaches a thumbnail that is one and a half inches long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...punched her in the stomach, bound her with a clothesline and locked her in the trunk of his car. Wilder allegedly drove her to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where he raped her and tortured her with electric shocks, at one point attempting to seal shut her eyes with glue. She escaped into a bathroom, locking herself in and screaming so loudly that she attracted rescuers and caused Wilder to flee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trail of Death | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

More annoyingly, the staging is often unimaginative and stilted. Besides Ronis, who has the option of recreating scenes from his underground theater productions, the performers follow a predictable pattern. They each walk to the center stage spot, glue themselves there, then return to their seats. Isenberg stands from her clan twice when speaking, but doesn't move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All My Children | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Electrons are the glue that holds the atoms in a molecule together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Dying Stars to Living Cells | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Says Taube: "When reactions take place, you are transferring the glue from one molecule to an other. As a result, the molecules involved sometimes totally reorganize and form entirely new molecules or substances." Through a series of ingenious experiments Taube showed that certain atoms or molecules can serve as bridges for this exchange of electrons. His work provided the first concrete models of what takes place during these reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Dying Stars to Living Cells | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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