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...greeted the news of David Kennedy's apparently drug-related death [NATION, May 7] with contempt. My disdain gave way to a lump in my throat after reading your report. Sirhan Sirhan has murdered again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...

Author: By Catherine R. Heer, | Title: NOT JUST BABY TALK | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...Everything she knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vegetable Garden | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

...these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with damaged goods peddled to the holiday crowds. Here and there one can find a pleasant or ambitious film, but none fills the Christmas stocking with delight. Moviegoers are advised to ask for a lump of coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Santa's Mixed Bag of Celluloid | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...mutilate my body, and then I'm going to die." But Miller has lost neither her life nor her breast. Like a small but growing number of breast-cancer patients in the U.S., she avoided a mastectomy and instead was treated with a simple removal of the breast lump (lumpectomy) followed by radiation therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easing Women's Constant Fear | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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