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...brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the P.L.O." So the old fellow is up on Yasser Arafat and the contemporary mess in the Middle East? Yes and no. When Heller wants to try for irony, he keeps David in the dark: "I put garrisons in Damascus and in the Golan heights, and I knew that the Syrians would never again be a problem for the children of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...mean," Tim Kazurinsky told Rolling Stone, "there were some sleazy motherfuckers who ripped John off when he was alive, but Bob Woodward's the only bastard low enough to pick his bones." The whole mess that has seen even terminally kind Steven Spielberg attack. Woodward stems from Woodward's wholly unsympathetic treatment of Belushi in Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. As a creative enterprise, the book reads like a narrative version of the film Reefer Madness with Belushi playing all the parts...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: The Price of Arrogance | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

HOWIE: You're history, creep! Don't mess with Howie Hip. SLOW FADE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Most Dangerous Game | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...efforts of modern science. Malaria returned with a vengeance. In just four years, the incidence in Sri Lanka rose from 18 cases to more than a million. The entire eradication program backfired, says Dr. Kenneth Warren, director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. "It's the worst mess in medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Combatting an Ancient Enemy | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...lovers; Gilda dumps Otto for Leo; Gilda leaves them both for a stuffy art dealer; Otto and Leo liberate Gilda from genteel sobriety. In Coward's world the cabal of camaraderie must ever win out over the exclusivity of passion, and style consists of tiptoeing away from the mess one has made of one's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rhino Feet | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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