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...star admitted that he had played under the influence of coke as a Cardinal and had not been able to break the habit until just before he was traded to New York in mid-June of 1983. When he lost ten pounds and awoke one morning with his nose bleeding, he knew he was in trouble. "I had the shakes and I wound up throwing a gram down the toilet," he testified. But what finally turned him off, Hernandez said, was when he saw St. Louis Outfielder Lonnie Smith, who now plays for the Kansas City Royals, have such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Drug Scandal | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...still didn't tell the truth. We learned that you lied--UNDER OATH, TWICE--in 1975 and 1978 about your bogus Harvard graduate degree. We learned from your ex-wife that your need to boast about this non extent Harvard degree was an addiction, that it was a habit you could not shake...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Get A Clue, John | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...exception of the Walt Disney series, no anthology show has finished in the Nielsen Top 25 since Alfred Hitchcock Presents a quarter-century ago. But it could blaze trails, or at least reopen them. With this show Spielberg is attempting to transform the weekly series from a comfortable habit to an event worth anticipating and savoring. Each Sunday night at 8, a new baby movie, with a spooky story, feature-film production values and, often as not, a distinctive visual style. One of Spielberg's own episodes, an hourlong drama called The Mission, envelops its suspense in a visual style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Sean Marsee was just twelve years old when he picked up some free samples of Skoal and Copenhagen tobacco at a local rodeo. Dipping snuff was a popular habit at his school, especially among the athletes. And Marsee, a budding track star, quickly grew accustomed to the feel of a juicy wad in his mouth and the slight head buzz that goes with it. By the time he entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Into the Mouths of Babes | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium, was crowned princess of the box office; Cary Grant, from Bristol, was still the monarch of masculinity. Everyone was so assimilated that you couldn't spot the immigrants without a security check. American films, once an obsession, were now an agreeable habit, as the rest of the world began attending to its own dreams and nightmares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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