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Indeed, when Lynda and Melvin get back together, it is her terpsichorean gift that briefly rescues him from having to succeed in his ingenuous but feckless quest for the "Milkman of the Month" prize at the dairy where he takes a job. She picks up money to pay the bills by tap dancing off with the top prize on Easy Street, a parody of one of those game shows that are themselves a parody of the American dream. But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desert Dream | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Earlier in the month, the I.R.A. claimed responsibility for two similar slayings in the border area. Wallace Allen, 49, a south Armagh milkman who was a reserve policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.), and Ross Hearst, 56, a laborer, whom the I.R.A. had accused of passing information to security forces, were abducted and shot to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Shifting Targets | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...milkman once told me, the cream comes to the top. Philadelphia has been playing way over its head all season, but now that it's a playoff time the. Flyers will fade away like the end of a Hollywood melodrama. Meanwhile, Montreal will calmly skate into the picture and win the cup. Calm, experienced, and with more two-way players than any other team in hockey, the Habs will ride a hot streak from underrated netminder Denis Herron past Buffalo...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: You Asked for It | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

Carter's defusing action on the Cuban crisis reminds me of the gent who, finding the milkman in bed with his wife, ran outside and kicked the milkman's horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...cherry tree. He found the tree growing wild, about 25 years ago, in the backyard of his house in Queens, N.Y. He transplanted it out to the front, next to the public sidewalk, and there it grew. "We always took care of it," said LoGiudice, 66, a retired milkman. "It was a beautiful tree with pretty flowers blossoming every spring and nice healthy cherries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Life's No Bowl of Cherries | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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