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...wear a business suit, she complains, "I hate flat shoes! I absolutly hate flat shoes! How can anybody ever keep their balance in these damn things!". Funny dialogue is great, but gestures and expression make Serrault's performance really memorable; when she gets frisked by a policeman, she frisks back...

Author: By Mac LA Follette, | Title: La Cage Aux Folles Meets The Bride | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

...Filipinos thronged to their polling stations, problems with voting registries began to crop up almost immediately. At the Araullo High School, a rambling wood- and-concrete structure on United Nations Avenue in midtown Manila, Policeman Oligario Remiruta, 46, lined up to cast his vote. The local poll chairman could not find Remiruta's name on the voters' list. By noon, 84 people at the school had received the same treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Standoff in Manila | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...that Swaggart was unknown in the South. He had long been a radio preacher and top country-Gospel singer (his cousin is Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis). The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Swaggart preached at his first street meeting at 19. "Son," said a policeman who was there, "you've got the fire." He has it still. Anyone who believes that TV has made the "hot" Gospel hell-raisers obsolete has not seen one of Swaggart's sweating, mike-toting, Bible-waving, Devil-thrashing performances. "Muhammad is dead but Jesus is alive," he intones. "He's alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Power, Glory - and Politics | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Radio reports said a policeman was wounded inBacolod, 300 miles south of Manila. In thecapital, workers for Aquino's UNIDO party chargedthat armed men from Marcos' New Society Movementabducted and beat an Aquino supporter, whosewhereabouts were unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Violence Erupts As Filipinos Cast Ballots | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

Defense Attorney Alton Maddox contended that the attempted robbery never took place. The prosecution, Maddox charged, was trying to frame Jonah Perry to avoid murder charges against Van Houten, who in two years as a policeman had an unblemished record. Said Maddox: "The fact that you have a badge and a gun does not allow you to do everything under the sun, and somebody had better send that message to the New York police department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case Not Proved | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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