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Life of the party, this killer Krueger, with a mot for every murder. "This is it, Jennifer," he tells an aspiring young actress before smashing her head into a television set, "your big break in TV!" He impudently asks a girl, "Wanna suck face?" and does so, fatally. He drowns one horny lad in his water bed: "How's this for a wet dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...keep their expectations low," says the Kennedy School's Reich. "There are many more suitors than jobs." Nor is there much reason to believe that the insiders of today will be on top come January. Outsiders can take heart from Hamilton Jordan's infamous anti-Establishment bon mot of the 1976 campaign: "If Cy Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski are in the Administration, then we have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potomac Fever: the Latest Epidemic | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...when you consider that 1987 has become the year of the Great Debate Spate. The seven Democratic contenders have already traded mild jabs on PBS and C-Span. Two more Democratic events are scheduled for September. On the Republican side, Moderator William Buckley will toss out the first bon mot on Oct. 28, when all six G.O.P. contenders, including an initially reluctant Vice President George Bush, appear on Firing Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debate Spate | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, this pair of calcified drones, who wrote to each other in baby talk ("Eanum Pig" was his code for her) but never said a memorable thing to anyone else -- except for the Duchess's mot, refuted by her own person, that one cannot be "too rich or too thin" -- are still imagined, especially by elderly Americans, to be a modern version of Tristan and Isolde. Hence Sotheby's spent a bundle before the sale hyping the jewels and went into a second printing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Of Vincent and Eanum Pig | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...essay, "On a book entitled Lolita," Nabokov explains how the novel represents "my love affair...with the English language." Having left off writing in his mother tongue, Nabokov, speaking through Humbert, toys with the American idiom, pinpoints his images with le mot juste...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

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