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...vice president of student services, John W. Shainline, released two statements this week criticizing the game called "Assassins" or "Killer" and asking students to "find recreational outlets other than with guns, playguns or anything that can be considered a weapon or mistaken for a weapon...

Author: By James S. Maguire, | Title: Student Shot by Campus Police to Sue | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

...Hell of a nice animal, frequently mistaken for a meatloaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...course one of her trophies-though it is hard to fathom why she bothered. But bother she did. Half the nation professed to be outraged when Fisher left sweet, unaffected Debbie Reynolds for the widow of his best friend, Mike Todd. Or was that a case of several mistaken identities? Reynolds, says Fisher, was neither sweet nor unaffected, and he had been unhappy with her almost from the beginning. He soon discovered that life with Liz, however, was an adventure for which he was unprepared: "Children, pets, servants, minor problems transformed into major tragedies, confusion, chaos, everything at fever pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hurricane and Two Survivors | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), a black man whose dignity could be taken or mistaken for arrogance-who, it occurs to Father, "didn't know he was a Negro." Soon enough, that awareness is impressed on him, with tragic results for him, the Family and ragtime New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One More Sad Song | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...characters underplay too far. Isenberg in the role of Viola leaves a bit too much to the script. Hailed by other characters as vivid, brilliant, sensitive, this Viola does little but throw up her hands in despair as she is mistaken for her brother, attacked by Toby and Aguecheek, adored and insulted, and made a pawn of. The play's grand denouement scene falls prey to this gradual slowing of pace, seeming just a bit too serene as a set of twins and two pairs of lovers are reunited...

Author: By --amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Shakespeare In Wonderland | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

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