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...gorgeous scam, simple in design, swift in execution. It worked like a dream, 65 times in ten weeks. The setup: a fugitive from justice in the Los Angeles area receives notice at his last known address that a package containing $2,000 worth of unspecified goods is waiting for him at FIST Bonded Delivery Courier Service. Curiosity piqued and greed aroused, he calls the number on the notice to arrange delivery. The number he dials happens to be a Marine barracks in Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County. The person he speaks with is working for the U.S. Marshals Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIST by a K.O. | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...GOOD THINGS about the movie are Fanny Ardant and Nestor Almendros. The latter produces some gorgeous black-and-white footage, using the backdrop of grungy Marseilles streets, sleazy nightclubs and palm-lined plazas in eternal rain to make for an atmosphere at once sinister and lyrical. The movie works better on a purely visual level than on any other; as a series of stills rather than a "moving picture." Whether one is willing to sit through two hours' worth of photos, even of southern France, is, of course, debatable...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...when I come out I'm gonna stand on these gorgeous gams and shout, "Screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...first of Carrabino's two crucial buckets resulted from a gorgeous shovel pass in a congested lane from freshman guard Keith Webster Webster is Harvard's newest starter replacing Co-Captain Ken Plutnicki--and in his appearances so far he has demonstrated a Calvin Dixon-like ability to handle the ball well and home in on the basket for the shot...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Win On the Road -- Finally | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

Enter Geneva Spofford (Kelly McGillis), blond and gorgeous and irresistibly young, half his age and twice as mature. Can Gowan not have realized that women are attracted to the poor childish male more out of pity than passion? Gowan is hooked. His head, the resting place for a dead Siamese cat of hair, is filled with the stirrings of teen love; and his will, which had always moved by shrugs, now be comes a Koren cartoon of shaggy-doggedness. The poet will propose marriage. The nymph will break his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Good Word | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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