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...Erving travels, throws up some junk...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Hub and its Heroes | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...door to a constitutional right. Bunting has been so good at his work that many local folk assume he is "a conjure doctor," a devil's ally who "can read your mind like it's you thinking." Bunting modestly demurs: "Country people, you know. They put a lot of junk on me. Many times, though, it's what kept me alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Spirits Moonshine | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Some experts dispute the merits of the MAC as an effective weapon. One law- enforcement official calls the short-barreled machine pistol "a piece of junk" that is difficult to control. Miami Police Officer Robert P. Davis, who has tested MACs, disagrees: "They are devastating in automatic form. They are like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Further Signs of Stress | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...yesterday took over as administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, kept his large University Hall office immaculate enough to prominently display several sets of toy trains, assorted pieces of junk from the renovations to Winthrop House, and bluebooks detailing the entire history of the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: University Enters New Era as Three Deans Assume Positions | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on an old map; Data (Ke Huy-Quan) gets out of scrapes with his Rube Goldberg gadgets; pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does; athletic Brand (Josh Brolin) muscles his way through calamity; and his little brother Mikey (Sean Astin), a dreamy hypochondriac, goads his fellow Goonies toward their rendezvous with a storybook pirate. The Goonies is like a clubhouse where every Boy's Life adventure comes true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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