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...Good, clean fun. But you look so skeptical, like you're from Missouri, and I want to sell you one of these beauties, 'cause you need it and 'cause you want it, no matter what you say. Deep in your all-American heart (you are American, aren't you, pal?), you crave this little honey, which will count for you and store for you and talk for you, and one day it might even kiss for you (no offense, miss). Point is, it will save you time. Time time time. And we need all the time we can save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New World Dawns | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...portrayer of loners is himself a loner who likes to be with people, but who says he has few friends. His pal Hotchner says that during an unproductive period in the late '70s, Newman seemed least glum bobbing around with him on Long Island Sound in a fishing boat they call Cocadetoro (in fractured Spanish, bullcrap). His bawdiness can be spectacular; and, says Susan, she and her sisters are constantly heading off raunchy stories with not-now-Dad looks flashed across the room. After years of complaining that Robert Altman's cheap white wine tasted like goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Finally, just after 6 p.m. Friday, De Lorean walked out of Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in Los Angeles and into a perfectly sleek black Jaguar with his wife Cristina and his pal Roy Nesseth. And then, punctuation for one chapter in a tale that has seemed like implausible fiction from the start: their Jaguar, with Nesseth driving, was hit by a Cadillac, which was in turn struck by a CBS News crew's car. No one was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Jail and into Trouble | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...recollecting his encounter with a woman who resides in Hanover, N. H., after having communicated with her through Xcalibur, Kay says that this "fun" method of communication is "quite different from the real world." Kay spotted his "computer-pal" as he walked by her terminal and by chance saw the typing pattern that corresponds to the pattern that he had been receiving at his terminal...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Spark Social Life With Computer | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

Yane is now planning a pair of diamond-solitaire jeans that will cost as much as $3,500. But wearers of the gilded britches might want to be discreet, or they could find themselves confronted by a mugger who growls, "Keep the wallet, pal. Just hand over the pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Singapore Chic and Shock | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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