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...just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness of the self-deprecating remark underscores his ambivalent feelings: While Dr. Rice the shrink recognizes an element of the ridiculous in his decision to play detective. Sam Rice the man is prey to an overpowering need to satisfy his curiosity...

Author: By Lewis J. Desimone, | Title: Under the Skin | 1/4/1983 | See Source »

...earthy assessment of him. A little humor or ribbing of Newman, the liberal who lives in an East Side Manhattan apartment, a country place in Connecticut and a home in Beverly Hills could have washed down that goo. Your story reminded me of Zelda Fitzgerald's remark to Ernest Hemingway upon seeing Al Jolson, "Don't you think he's greater than Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1982 | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan's National Security Adviser, William Clark, as "Living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire's remark is living proof that when it comes to malice toward one another, top conservatives are in a class by themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Watch Thomas Griffith: Restoring Reputations | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

President Reagan displayed his misunderstanding of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in his remark "We are beginning to appreciate that they were fighting for a just cause." The monument was not established to justify a questionable war. It honors those who fought and died, and serves as a reminder that the wounded are still among us. Barbara Hart McCarthy Eugene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1982 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...movie's best scene occurs when Nolte and Murphy go into a country boy bar, full of rednecks in cowboy hats. "These are my kind of people," chuckles Nolte, "they sure as hell don't like you." Murphy takes the remark as a dare, and after borrowing Nolte's badge, breaks the big mirror behind the bartender. The room falls quiet. "Alright now, listen up!" yells Murphy. "I don't like white people...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: Blood in the City Streets | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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