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...soon as they put a jacket on me I warmed up, regained some strength and considerably more sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline, and although my fingers were still numb and non-functioning, there was no more snow, only rain. I knew I would make it the rest...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...furnished Travolta with his very own stairway to heaven. So long as the film is accepted for what it is--highly marketable entertainment and nothing else--"Saturday Night Fever" will deliver for most of its two-hour length. And if Norman Wexler's cliche-plagued screenplay leaves you numb in parts, one of those ubiquitous Bee Gee standards is waiting just around the corner to rouse you from your slumber.CENTER SCREEN presents both Frank Mouris [in person] and his "Frank Film," Friday, 8 p.m. at the Carpenter Center. Caroline Ahlfirs Mouris will also speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...busted and the windows didn't close all the way. We got to Winter Park around 8:30 a.m.--early, before the lifts started, because Jim was a senior ski patrolman and had to get instructions from the patrol leader before the mountain opened--and I was so numb I wondered if I could...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...Show. I spent four weeks looking forward to seeing it, one hour being jostled by opening-nighters and plainclothes policemen waiting for it to begin, one hour of the first act chuckling quietly to myself, the remaining 45 minutes of the first act attempting to revive my two completely numb legs, and the second act in 33 Dunster St. I chickened out. I spent much of that restless night dreaming the post-mortem dream reprinted above. Now, three days later, I offer no excuses except the following good ones: 1) My legs, as I have already pointed out, had fallen...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...numb to understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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