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...They want you to write that if you are given permission to travel to see your mother and children and to get treatment, you will not hold press conferences, see reporters, or this or that." When I realized that all they wanted was for me to keep my mouth shut in the presence of the press, I said, "With pleasure!" Then I asked, "What do they want from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...glimpses of the agony bred by the daily combination of expectation and reality on the golf course. Once, my friend grew so enraged at not being able to get his ball out of a sand trap on successive shots that he picked it up with his mouth and dropped it onto the green...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Finding Love on the Links | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...Declared Japanese-American Congressman Robert Matsui of California: "Mr. Nakasone's explanation is almost as outrageous . . . as his original statement." At this point, some Japanese also rang in. "Our Prime Minister," said Professor Kennichi Shibuya, evaluation expert at Joetsu University of Education, "should never have opened his mouth on this question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nakasone's World-Class Blunder | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help you" -- but he soon enough acceded to her masochistic desires. Then Frank taught Jeffrey a lesson. He smeared lipstick on his own face, kissed Jeffrey hard on the mouth and beat him senseless. Sandy responds to such revelations like a child at the end of a nightmare fairy tale: "It's a strange world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Strange World, Isn't It Blue Velvet | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Prequel" is one of those smarmy coinages, like "brunch," that make a self-respecting user of language want to wash his mouth out with whisky. Brunch can be avoided by not getting out of bed before noon on Sundays, but prequel -- ptui! -- probably is inevitable for works such as Richard Condon's rowdy new novel, a report on the formative years of the author's lovable but dumb Mafia assassin Charley Partanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mafioso Prizzi's Family | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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