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...travelling, researchers try to find the least expensive and most hospitable places for students. In the U.S., this means staying at Motel 6's or KOA campgrounds. It may mean eating a lot of bad, cheap food to find those few good, cheap eateries...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: It's Not Just a Travel Guide, It's an Adventure | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

...Once again, Fiddler follows the tradition--while the younger generation of characters with in six solid performances, none reaches the game level as those of their elders, Lowis A. Myers does a good Job an Model, the rebellion second daughter, and Jeffrey Cooper makes his relatively small role of Motel the Tailor loss one of the most memorable in the show--his transformation from the sky and stammering neighbor boy into the suitor who boldly proclaims his love for Tevye's daughter Tzeitel (Suzanne M.F. Tanner) rings true throughout. The others hold their own during the individual scenes, but fade...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Ah, Tradition | 4/24/1984 | See Source »

...woman (whose name is being withheld by police). He offered her $25 an hour to pose for photographs. When she turned him down, he punched her in the stomach, bound her with a clothesline and locked her in the trunk of his car. Wilder allegedly drove her to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where he raped her and tortured her with electric shocks, at one point attempting to seal shut her eyes with glue. She escaped into a bathroom, locking herself in and screaming so loudly that she attracted rescuers and caused Wilder to flee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trail of Death | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...month retrospective of the 18 films Hitchcock directed for TV. Even on the fashion pages: Couturier Paul Monroe has unveiled a new line of "Hitchcock dresses," including a Rope T shirt, with its coiling cord, and a Psycho frock that mimics a certain shower curtain in the Bates motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Master Who Knew Too Much | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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