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...would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman) can sit in it, so Mom will have to clean his pants later on, so she will find a note in the pocket written by his new 24-year-old girlfriend, so they can have a fight over his dating an "older woman" and provide a reason for the episode. But no good reason for watching Valerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sitting in the Maple Syrup | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...ingenious ways of taking the drug right in front of their co-workers without being detected. Some, for example, buy squeeze-bottle medications for sinus congestion, empty out the medicine and refill the bottles with cocaine. Cocaine vaporizes at temperatures above 80 degrees , so merely carrying it in a pocket keeps the container close to normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees and the coke ready for sniffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Anderson is a human entertainment conglomerate, manipulating every medium known to man in the cause of her art--and presumably her pocket-book. She has become well-known among college students in the past few years primarily for her records. Best known are her two Warner Brothers releases. Big Science (1982) and Mister Heartbreak (1984), as well as her five-record chronicle of the performance-art piece United States Parts...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...Adams House Pocket Theatre Through March...

Author: By Michael R. Mcadoo, | Title: Short and Sweet | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...more difficult, but it hardly means that Congress has been ! liberated from the thrall of special interests. Well- intentioned congressional reform has been subverted over the years by the proliferation of lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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