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...Star Wars profits into Alien, the tale of an otherworldly creature who takes to mugging U.S. spacemen. American International Pictures plans a spacey adventure titled The Incredible Melting Man, in which a returning astronaut poses some sticky problems for the p.r. boys at NASA. The poor fellow has to gulp down gallons of blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star Trips | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...confidently squeeze your opponent's clammy palm, slam it to the table and gulp down your milk...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: It's All in the Wrist | 4/27/1977 | See Source »

Roughly one-third of O'Hare's controllers suffer from peptic ulcers, and another third have gastric or emotional problems of one kind or another. While they work, the controllers gulp down antacid tablets from jars kept within easy reach. The Chicago branch of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization has sued the FAA, claiming that the O'Hare unit is understaffed, backup equipment is lacking, and training programs are ineffective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Constant Quest for Safety | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...party was unusual. Most of the time we drank nothing stronger than Inca Kola. A piss-yellow soft drink with the taste of bubble gum, Inca Kola manages to more than hold its own against the foreign invader, Coke. In Peru soft drinks are chugged rapidly at a gulp. For this style of drinking Coca Cola has too much gas, something which the company's South American executives either don't know or are unwilling to change...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Inca Disco | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...while everybody is beating up on everybody else, Harvard and Yale prance into The Game with the championship on the line, right? Possible obstacles: Brown over Harvard (gasp) and/or Princeton over Yale (gulp). In which case, The Game decides The Four-Way Tie. Everything is normal...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

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