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...vampires are still popular, many adult outfits are bewitching in another sense: harem robes, Tarzan loincloths, geisha girls, samurai swordsmen, plus Dolly Parton, Carmen Miranda and Lady Godiva. This year's revelers will also be garbed as Mr. T, E.T., gruesome beasts from Return of the Jedi, punk rockers, hot dogs, sandwiches, trash bags, schools of fish, brilliantly plumed birds, six-packs of beer, and, if a Denver pair repeats its act, a couple in bed, including the bed. A New York City family will masquerade as Britain's royal family with a horse-drawn coach. An Atlantan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Halloween as an Adult Treat | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Other notable entries were a punk pumpkin complete with a safety pin in its ear, and a pumpkin in labeled...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Trick-or-Treating, Drinking Herald Halloween Here | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year. On the naturalistic level, Francis Coppola's film is a botch, a hoot. The two main characters-Rusty-James (Matt Dillon), a 17-year-old punk who figures he moves with the swagger of stardom, and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), tired of being an outlaw legend in Rusty-James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time Bomb | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...tempo We Beseech Thee. The slight plot and Stephen Schwartz's exuberant score, which in the 1971 premiere seemed purely a product of flower power, hold up surprisingly well: the youths who eventually join up with Jesus have been reconceived by Director Gregory Peterson as 1980s punk rockers with spiky hair, stiletto heels and spooky makeup, and their menacing manner lends urgency to the effort to convert them to righteousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Great Expectations in Canada | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

What can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire? A universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and almost every western ever screened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1977: Star Wars | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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