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...this point, the woman started to cry and mutter under her breath. "I don't understand why they won't help me, I know I should have put it in my purse I've got to get home, what am I going to do. The people around her were starting to get uncomfortable but crying burned off some of the tension and as her fear and confusion subsided her anger rose. "I'm never flying this damn airline again," she said drying her face. Would you people mind terribly if I went ahead of you, I'm sure...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Lost in the Fog | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...actual end, videotape their own official death scenes. The trouble is that most people tend to be windy and predictable when asked to say a few words on an important occasion. Maybe the best way to be memorable at the end is to be enigmatic. When in doubt, simply mutter, "Rosebud." - By Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Dying Art: The Classy Exit Line | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...this time specifically to see the Adams House Z K-School fellow Burford picks the same weekend to move to Cambridge for the year, and happens to drive past the festivities on the riverbank. "And I thought I had a cleanup problem," the former federal administrator is heard to mutter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year of the Wrap | 1/3/1984 | See Source »

...daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated as one of the devil's brood. "The peasants drove her mercilessly. She cleaned the cow shed ... brought firewood from the forest. At night the peasant's wife would mutter: 'You know who your mother is. You must pay for your sins. Your mother has corrupted whole villages.' " Wherever Tzili goes the peasants beat her with sticks and ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exact Fit | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...funny on purpose. When shooting her way out of the Afghan camp, for instance, Eve is stopped by the young prince who loves her. She levels her gun at him, but he stands firm and opens his shirt, exposing his chest as a target. All Eve can do is mutter "Men" and run off. Robert Morley as the deranged businessman Bentik also keeps the movie from taking itself too seriously, camping up his malice and insulting his manservant. And the 12-year-old in all of us giggles at serial stunts and big battles from which the heroes emerge safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Well-Worn Road | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

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