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BORN. To Fernando Valenzuela, 21, Los Angeles Dodgers pitching marvel, and,Linda Valenzuela-Burgos, 21, a former schoolteacher: their first child, a son; in San Pedro, Calif. Name: Fernando Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could see the paint pellets spin past me, although they were too fast to duck away from. My fourth or fifth shot hit the red player, who said "Aaaargh!"the way comic-book villains used to do when they got bopped by Captain Marvel, whom I now felt myself to resemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...gives back a new fairy tale as good as old. The film opens on a night sky, Disney I blue and full of twinkling stars. In the clearing of a forest that Bambi and Thumper might have been pleased to call home, a spaceship sits - not a high-tech marvel of the NASA future but a bell-shaped spinster of a ship, with old-fashioned street lamps appending and the unmistakable aura of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures moving about in capes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Analyze Boston's poor foul shooting or marvel at Andrew Toney's unstoppable jump shot if you must; complain about the refereeing or remind your roommate from Philadelphia that Tiny spent yesterday on the bench in street clothes. The sophisticated fans, wherever they sat, joined that stirring end-of-game cheer, out of respect for the Celtics and for a team that showed it doesn't choke after all. As far as you're concerned, the championship's been won, Best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtic Pride | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...Kirov Ballet is still a classical marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Light Steps from Leningrad | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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