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Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Lost and Found BIG | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

BEETLEJUICE. Is it the fey humor or the calypso tunes that have made this movie a monster hit? Most likely it is Michael Keaton's turbodrive performance as a haunt who is hot to party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 16, 1988 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...inventory manager for a Racine, Wis., restaurant and a university student from South Bend, Ind. The latter winces as an unfeeling observer calls out, "You didn't let the machine beatcha, did ya?" Contestant Daniel Kamen, an Arlington Heights, Ill., chiropractor, is considerably more empathetic. "It's a monster! You can't blow smoke in its face," he complains. "It doesn't care if you're obnoxious or if you have bad breath. You just can't rattle it. I wouldn't want to play Hitech in a tournament, but I'd sure like to borrow it for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Playing Hitech Computer Chess | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard had a monster recruiting year," Woods added. "It won't be long before Harvard is at the top again. It's a recruiting year that Stanford would be proud...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Brown Buries Netmen; Bruins Surprise, 8-1 | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...victory improved Hurst's record in his home field to a surprising 21-7 since 1986. Fenway Park is considered particularly hostile to lefthanded pitchers because of the close leftfield fence, but Hurst seems to have tamed the Green Monster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Slip by Brewers, 3-1 | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

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