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...light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from his body: Mogwai in fetal form. Gizmo's mutant offspring look and act like Munchkins reborn as Hell's Angels. They have disgraceful eating habits; they turn the greeting-card village into a South Bronx shambles, then send old Mrs. Deagle into fatal orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...think that the effects are just too much. As the colored lights flash and wink in bright display, the scene comes to resemble a glitzy junk yard Christmas. At the play's climactic moment, when a glittering floating cloud carries an aging cat away into the sky to be reborn, the illusion erodes into little more than J. Alfred Prufrock meets Star Wars...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Feline Fantasy | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...best known are certainly the Women. De Kooning has always been obsessed, as a painter, with the bodies of women, quoting them in whole and in detail, with a unique mingling of distance, intimacy, lust, humor and spite. In them, the billowy amplitude of Rubens' flesh is sometimes reborn, along with the sardonic affection Reginald Marsh felt for his Coney Island cuties. But the women of the early '50s are his canonical ones-part archaic Ishtar, part Amsterdam hooker and part Marilyn. Their most menacing attribute is their smile, originally cut from a LIFE magazine ad and stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting's Vocabulary Builder | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...tremendous mental and physical shape, and he fought like a reborn fighter, which he said he was after he won the WBA junior middleweight title June 16 against young Davey Moore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...beings," the Druze hold that God is a single entity and that men pass through a series of lives, constantly moving toward perfection. They also believe that only a fixed number of places are reserved for them in paradise. Upon death, therefore, every worthy Druze is said to be reborn as another Druze; for the same reason, converts are not accepted and intermarriage is not encouraged. The Druze neither drink nor smoke nor swear. They steadfastly observe complete submission to God, mutual support, repudiation of all other religions and strict truthfulness. Yet the faith remains eminently pragmatic: when abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hidden and Mysterious Order | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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