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...down an icy chute, face first, on what appeared to be a cafeteria tray. He was, in fact, a member of the village "toboggan" club, out for a ride on his "skeleton" sled. Three quick thoughts emerged: it's a bit early in the day for that, he's loonier than a luger, and we'll not see skeleton in the Olympics anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just This Side Of Loony | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...down an icy chute, face first, on what appeared to be a cafeteria tray. He was, in fact, a member of the village "toboggan" club, out for a ride on his "skeleton" sled. Three quick thoughts emerged: it's a bit early in the day for that, he's loonier than a luger, and we'll not see skeleton in the Olympics anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just This Side of Loony | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

...MADE LOVE LIKE HE WORKED ON THE street -- tender as a jackhammer." So goes one of the loonier entries in the RED SHOE DIARIES, a woman's account of her steamy affair with a construction worker who moonlights as -- no kidding -- a shoe salesman. The woman (Brigitte Bako), torn between the hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Last fortnight Hollywood reworked two of its favorite ways of handling one of its favorite themes-the loonier side of matrimony. The reworkings were entitled The Doctor Takes a Wife (Columbia) and My Favorite Wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Nevertheless, this unrelieved saga of march and massacre, played by a topheavily male cast, whose embarrassing way of laughing at Spencer Tracy's feeblest sallies gets loonier as they get hungrier, is more than run-of-the-mill cowboys and Indians. Responsible are King Vidor's veteran directing, his earnest regard for realism in frontier history, some first-rate Technicolor photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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