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Alas for his peace and quiet, he has a boyhood chum named Stoltz, a hustler determined to remobilize his old pal. He personally dices vegetables in order to provide Oblomov with an energizing diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lovers and Laziness | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...single pal or girlfriend has turned up from those seven sketchy years at Texas Tech. His few acquaintances recall Hinckley as an expressionless blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drifter Who Stalked Success | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...rehearsals at Carnegie Hall for their separate performances on Gala of Stars, a public-television special airing this month, the two finally attempted a duet-a four-handed Flight of the Bumblebee on Rampal's 14-karat flute. "He's not too bad," said Rampal of his pal, though the performance was "not for musical purposes." Said Perlman, who just won four Grammy Awards: "We could have done better if I had been thinner. Then he could have gotten his arms around me and breezed through the fingerwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1981 | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...leads in a $5.85 million heist from a Lufthansa terminal at New York's Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining for payoffs even when the point shaving was unsuccessful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fixer | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...which are disconcerting, such as the ones that have Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champion and Piaf's love of loves, being played by a black, and a Marlene Dietrich who is downright frumpy. A medal of merit should be struck for Zoë Wanamaker; as the prostitute pal of Piaf's who later achieves smug respectability, she is a perfect foil for Lapotaire, and their scenes together are wickedly droll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lucifer's Toy | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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