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...jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover in Terms of Endearment, incendiary preacher in Footloose), here does a manic turn as Dr. Lizardo; it is as if old mad Ezra Pound were played by Klaus Kinski. And Weller-his cobalt eyes borrowed from Paul Newman, his iron jaw from D.C. Comics-makes a stalwart Renaissance man for the atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...when she attacked him. "Suzy almost raped Jeffy twice," Gary recalls with a laugh. "Once she had him pinned and started taking off his shirt, and he came running up to our room for shelter." His fear would prove warranted late in the year when she accidentally broke his jaw...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Luis C. Silva, S | Title: Too close for comfort | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Officer Kathleen Stanford suffered a broken jaw when her patrol car slammed into a bridge abutment about three weeks ago, Morse said. The crash occurred as Stanford tried to avoid hitting a car that had pulled in front...

Author: By Adam N. Gurfain, | Title: Harvard Motorcycle Policeman Injured in Crash With Car | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

...take charge" image had taken hold even before March 30. Only a few weeks before, my photograph (jaw jutting, arms akimbo) had been on the cover of TIME magazine. With the insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Presidents sometimes seem to resemble their houses. The great head and strong jaw of Franklin Roosevelt fitted in with his stately Hudson River mansion at Hyde Park. Lyndon Johnson, weathered and slit-eyed, sometimes looked as if he came with the clapboards of his boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Reagan's home seems tall and open like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: There's No Place Like It | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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