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...King's return. Once the province of supermarket tabloids, reports of Elvis' resurrection now nestle in bookstores. Following on the heels of Moody's book, Gail Brewer-Giorgio's best-selling Is Elvis Alive? (Tudor; 1988) offers evidence to stoke the stories. Fact: on the singer's grave his middle name, Aron, is misspelled as Aaron. Possible conclusion: Elvis Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails to convince skeptics, she has profitably tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The King Is Dead - or Is He? | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...weathered 67. His sense of humor is as dry as a prairie breeze. In the operating room of a hospital in the one- stoplight town of Hale Center, he listens to a doctor describe the type of anesthesia used there. "Most of this crowd," he says, casting a grave look at the press corps, "thinks I'm asleep already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid Bentsen | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Imagine puts to good use selections from hundreds of hours of tape-recorded interviews, allowing John to "narrate" the movie himself from beyond the grave and avoiding the need for an intrusive third-person voice-over. John's honesty and wit are ever apparent...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

...expression grave, he added that the government "reiterates its unbreakable resolve to comply with, and have others comply with, the constitution and laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pinochet Concedes Defeat in Chile Vote | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

Doug Flutie had risen from the grave, which in this case took the form of a slab of wood beside the football field. He had conquered...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Waiting for Doug | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

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