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With regard to the article "Sinking a Name" [May 10], please note that the Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) telephone directory lists: the Corpus Christi Flea Market, the Corpus Christi Mud Pit Services, the Corpus Christi Amusement Co., the Corpus Christi Speedway, and the Corpus Christi Pistol and Rifle Club. Where is the righteous indignation of Bishop Drury over these slurrings of the sacrament of the Eucharist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...parts. He discovers a homosexual tryst in a packing crate, loses his grip when a chicken called Modine pecks its understudy to death and is replaced by Cluck Gable, and suffers a painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead of staying in character, King mutters into the instrument, "Gonna drank me a batch of that ol' Cutty Sark tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cattle Call | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...after the shooting by FBI agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books was The Fan, the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loser of a One-Man Race | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket in the place where the former Beatle was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loser of a One-Man Race | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...TIMES, KIESLING'S feeling about crew get even more intense than the Straus Cup finals. Like his nightmare before the 1979 Race: he dreamt that the competition had changed from a crew race into an eight-man duel, starting with the bowmen. One shot each: Each raised his pistol, fired, and disappeared with a clean round hole drilled through his forehead. This is not a normal athletic Tantasy...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Trying Harder | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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